The splendid culture of the ancient Greeks has often been described as emerging like a miracle from a genius of its own, owing practically nothing to its neighbors. Walter Burkert offers a decisive argument against that distorted view, pointing toward a balanced picture of the archaic period "in which, under the influence of the Semitic East-from writers, craftsmen, merchants, healers-Greek culture began its unique flowering, soon to assume cultural hegemony in the Mediterranean."
| ISBN: | 9780674643642 |
| Publication date: | 2nd October 1995 |
| Author: | Walter Burkert |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 238 pages |
| Series: | Revealing Antiquity |
| Genres: |
History |