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Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism
AvWalter Burkert
Inbunden, Engelska, 1972
1 365 kr
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For this first English edition of his distinguished study of Pythagoreanism, Weisheit und Wissenschajt: Studien zu Pythagoras, Philolaos, und Platon, Walter Burkert has carefully revised text and notes, taking account of additional literature on the subject which appeared between 1962 and 1969.By a thorough critical sifting of all the available evidence, the author lays a new foundation for the understanding of ancient Pythagoreanism and in particular of the relationship within it of “lore” and “science.” He shows that in the twilight zone when the Greeks were discovering the rational interpretation of the world and quantitative natural science, Pythagoras represented not the origin of the new, but the survival or revival of ancient, pre-scientific lore or wisdom, based on superhuman authority and expressed in ritual obligation.
Savage Energies
Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece
AvWalter Burkert
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
295 kr
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We often think of classical Greek society as a model of rationality and order. Yet as Walter Burkert demonstrates in these influential essays on the history of Greek religion, there were archaic, savage forces surging beneath the outwardly calm face of classical Greece, whose potentially violent and destructive energies, Burkert argues, were harnessed to constructive ends through the interlinked uses of myth and ritual. For example, in a much-cited essay on the Athenian religious festival of the Arrephoria, Burkert uncovers deep connections between this strange nocturnal ritual, in which two virgin girls carried sacred offerings into a cave and later returned with something given to them there, and tribal puberty initiations by linking the festival with the myth of the daughters of Kekrops. Other chapters explore the origins of tragedy in blood sacrifice; the role of myth in the ritual of the new fire on Lemnos; the ties between violence, the Athenian courts, and the annual purification of the divine image; and how failed political propaganda entered the realm of myth at the time of the Persian Wars.
Homo Necans
The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth
AvWalter Burkert
Häftad, Engelska, 1986
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
406 kr
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Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in Walter Burkert's famous study.
Greek Religion
Archaic and Classical
AvWalter Burkert
Häftad, Engelska, 1987
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
800 kr
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"Greek Religion . . . already has the standing of a classic, and the publication of an English version, which incorporates new material and is in effect a second edition, demands a toast . . . Anyone who pretends to survey Greek religion must be phenomenally learned. Burkert is. His book is a marvel of professional scholarship." London Review of Books "This book has established itself as a masterpiece, packed with learning but also rich in ideas and connections of every sort. Its appearance in a good English translation is an event not only for Hellenists but for all those interested in the study of religion . . . nobody else could have produced an account of the subject of comparable range and power. This will be the best history of Greek religion for this generation." New York Review of Books Cover illustration: detail from an Attic vase, 450 B.C., showing a victory sacrifice (The Mansell Collection).
Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual
AvWalter Burkert
Häftad, Engelska, 1982
262 kr
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"Tantalizingly rich ...this is a splendid book."--Greece and Rome "Burken relegates his learned documentation to the notes and writes in a lively and fluent style. The book is recommended as a major contribution to the interpretation of ancient Greek myth and ritual. The breadth alone of Burkert's learning renders his book indispensable."--Classical Outlook "Impressive...founded on a striking knowledge of the complex evidence (literary, epigraphical, archaeological, comparative) for this extensive subject. Burkert offers a rare combination of exact scholarship with imagination and even humor. A brilliant book, in which ...the reader can see at every point what is going on in the author's mind--and that is never uninteresting, and rarely unimportant."--Times Literary Supplement "Burkert's work is of such magnitude and depth that it may even contribute to that most difficult of tasks, defining myth, ritual, and religion. . [He] locates his work in the context of culture and the historv of ideas, and he is not hesitant to draw on sociology and biology.Consequently his work is of significance for philosophers, historians, and even theologians, as well as for classicists and historians of Greek culture. His hypotheses are courageous and his conclusions are bold; both establish standards for methodology as well as results. "--Religious Studies Review
Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis
Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture
AvWalter Burkert
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
279 kr
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At the distant beginning of Western civilization, according to European tradition, Greece stands as an insular, isolated, near-miracle of burgeoning culture. This book traverses the ancient world’s three great centers of cultural exchange—Babylonian Nineveh, Egyptian Memphis, and Iranian Persepolis—to situate classical Greece in its proper historical place, at the Western margin of a more comprehensive Near Eastern–Aegean cultural community that emerged in the Bronze Age and expanded westward in the first millennium B.C.In concise and inviting fashion, Walter Burkert lays out the essential evidence for this ongoing reinterpretation of Greek culture. In particular, he points to the critical role of the development of writing in the ancient Near East, from the achievement of cuneiform in the Bronze Age to the rise of the alphabet after 1000 B.C. From the invention and diffusion of alphabetic writing, a series of cultural encounters between “Oriental” and Greek followed. Burkert details how the Assyrian influences of Phoenician and Anatolian intermediaries, the emerging fascination with Egypt, and the Persian conquests in Ionia make themselves felt in the poetry of Homer and his gods, in the mythic foundations of Greek cults, and in the first steps toward philosophy. A journey through the fluid borderlines of the Near East and Europe, with new and shifting perspectives on the cultural exchanges these produced, this book offers a clear view of the multicultural field upon which the Greek heritage that formed Western civilization first appeared.
Del 1 - Carl Newell Jackson Lectures
Ancient Mystery Cults
AvWalter Burkert
Häftad, Engelska, 1989
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
279 kr
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The foremost historian of Greek religion provides the first comprehensive, comparative study of a little-known aspect of ancient religious beliefs and practices. Secret mystery cults flourished within the larger culture of the public religion of Greece and Rome for roughly a thousand years. This book is neither a history nor a survey but a comparative phenomenology, concentrating on five major cults. In defining the mysteries and describing their rituals, membership, organization, and dissemination, Walter Burkert displays the remarkable erudition we have come to expect of him; he also shows great sensitivity and sympathy in interpreting the experiences and motivations of the devotees.
Creation of the Sacred
Tracks of Biology in Early Religions
AvWalter Burkert
Häftad, Engelska, 1998
367 kr
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Sacrifice—ranging from the sacrifice of virgins to circumcision to giving up what is most valued—is essential to all religions. Could there be a natural, even biological, reason for these practices? Something that might explain why religions of so many different cultures share so many rituals and concepts? In this extraordinary book, one of the world’s leading authorities on ancient religions explores the possibility of natural religion—a religious sense and practice naturally proceeding from biological imperatives.Because they lack later refinements, the earliest religions from the Near East, Israel, Greece, and Rome may tell us a great deal about the basic properties and dynamics of religion, and it is to these cultures that Walter Burkert looks for answers. His book takes us on an intellectual adventure that begins some 5,000 years ago and plunges us into a fascinating world of divine signs and omens, offerings and sacrifices, rituals and beliefs unmitigated by modern science and sophistication. Tracing parallels between animal behavior and human religious activity, Burkert suggests natural foundations for sacrifices and rituals of escape, for the concept of guilt and punishment, for the practice of gift exchange and the notion of a cosmic hierarchy, and for the development of a system of signs for negotiating with an uncertain environment. Again and again, he returns to the present to remind us that, for all our worldliness, we are not so far removed from the first Homo religiosus.A breathtaking journey, as entertaining as it is provocative, Creation of the Sacred brings rich new insight on religious thought past and present and raises serious questions about the ultimate reasons for, and the ultimate meaning of, human religiousness.
Greek Religion
AvWalter Burkert
Häftad, Tyska, 1987
367 kr
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Del 5 - Revealing Antiquity
Orientalizing Revolution
Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age
AvWalter Burkert
Häftad, Engelska, 1998
329 kr
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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.”
Violent Origins
Walter Burkert, René Girard, and Jonathan Z. Smith on Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation
AvWalter Burkert,René Girardm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 1988
379 kr
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Burkert, Girard, and Smith hold important and contradictory theories about the nature and origin of ritual sacrifice, and the role violence plays in religion and culture. These papers and conversations derive from a conference that pursued the possibility and utility of a general theory of religion and culture, especially one based on violence. The special value of this volume is the conversations as such—the real record of working scholars engaged with one another's theories, as they make and meet challenges, and move and maneuver.Girard and Burkert present different versions of the same conviction: that a single theory can account for ritual and its social function, a theory that posits original acts of group violence. Smith sharply questions both the possibility and the utility of such a general theory. Among the highlights of this stimulating interchange of ideas is a searching criticism of Girard's theory of generative scapegoating, which he answers with clarity and conviction, and a challenging of Burkert's theory of the origin of sacrifice in the hunt by Smith's argument, posed as a jeu d'esprit, that sacrifice originates with the domestication of animals.
Violent Origins
Walter Burkert, René Girard, and Jonathan Z. Smith on Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation
AvWalter Burkert,René Girardm. fl.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 1988
458 kr
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Burkert, Girard, and Smith hold important and contradictory theories about the nature and origin of ritual sacrifice, and the role violence plays in religion and culture. These papers and conversations derive from a conference that pursued the possibility and utility of a general theory of religion and culture, especially one based on violence. The special value of this volume is the conversations as such—the real record of working scholars engaged with one another's theories, as they make and meet challenges, and move and maneuver.Girard and Burkert present different versions of the same conviction: that a single theory can account for ritual and its social function, a theory that posits original acts of group violence. Smith sharply questions both the possibility and the utility of such a general theory. Among the highlights of this stimulating interchange of ideas is a searching criticism of Girard's theory of generative scapegoating, which he answers with clarity and conviction, and a challenging of Burkert's theory of the origin of sacrifice in the hunt by Smith's argument, posed as a jeu d'esprit, that sacrifice originates with the domestication of animals.
Greek Religion
Archaic and Classical
AvWalter Burkert
E-bok
Engelska, 2013
552 kr
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"Greek Religion . . . already has the standing of a classic, and the publication of an English version, which incorporates new material and is in effect a second edition, demands a toast . . . Anyone who pretends to survey Greek religion must be phenomenally learned. Burkert is. His book is a marvel of professional scholarship." London Review of Books
"This book has established itself as a masterpiece, packed with learning but also rich in ideas and connections of every sort. Its appearance in a good English translation is an event not only for Hellenists but for all those interested in the study of religion . . . nobody else could have produced an account of the subject of comparable range and power. This will be the best history of Greek religion for this generation." New York Review of Books
Cover illustration: detail from an Attic vase, 450 B.C., showing a victory sacrifice (The Mansell Collection).
Greek Religion
Archaic and Classical
AvWalter Burkert
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2013
552 kr
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"Greek Religion . . . already has the standing of a classic, and the publication of an English version, which incorporates new material and is in effect a second edition, demands a toast . . . Anyone who pretends to survey Greek religion must be phenomenally learned. Burkert is. His book is a marvel of professional scholarship." London Review of Books
"This book has established itself as a masterpiece, packed with learning but also rich in ideas and connections of every sort. Its appearance in a good English translation is an event not only for Hellenists but for all those interested in the study of religion . . . nobody else could have produced an account of the subject of comparable range and power. This will be the best history of Greek religion for this generation." New York Review of Books
Cover illustration: detail from an Attic vase, 450 B.C., showing a victory sacrifice (The Mansell Collection).
Arktouros
Hellenic Studies presented to Bernard M. W. Knox on the occasion of his 65th birthday
AvGlen W. Bowersock,Walter Burkertm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 1980
2 765 kr
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Homo Necans
AvWalter Burkert
Häftad, Tyska, 1997
549 kr
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Del 32 - Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche Und Vorarbeiten
Homo Necans
AvWalter Burkert
Inbunden, Tyska, 1997
1 609 kr
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Del 1 - Hans-Lietzmann-Vorlesungen
Klassisches Altertum und antikes Christentum
AvWalter Burkert
Inbunden, Tyska, 1996
1 609 kr
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Homo Necans
Interpretationen altgriechischer Opferriten und Mythen
AvWalter Burkert
E-bok
PDF, Tyska, 2013
1 457 kr
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Klassisches Altertum und antikes Christentum
Probleme einer übergreifenden Religionswissenschaft
AvWalter Burkert
E-bok
PDF, Tyska, 2010
1 472 kr
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Arktouros
Hellenic Studies presented to Bernard M. W. Knox on the occasion of his 65th birthday
AvMichael Putnam,Walter Burkertm. fl.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2011
2 506 kr
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Del 15 - Die Religionen der Menschheit
Griechische Religion Der Archaischen Und Klassischen Epoche
AvWalter Burkert
Inbunden, Tyska, 2010
945 kr
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Kleine Schriften
Mystica, Orphica, Pythagorica
AvWalter Burkert,Fritz Graf
Inbunden, Tyska, 2006
1 399 kr
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Kleine Schriften
Tragica Et Historica
AvWalter Burkert,Wolfgang Rosler
Inbunden, Tyska, 2007
1 186 kr
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Kleine Schriften IV
Mythica, Ritualia, Religiosa 1
AvWalter Burkert,Fritz Graf
Inbunden, Tyska, 2011
1 623 kr
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Kleine Schriften V
Mythica, Ritualia, Religiosa 2
AvWalter Burkert,Fritz Graf
Inbunden, Tyska, 2011
1 316 kr
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Kleine Schriften IX
Addenda Zu Den Banden I-viii
AvWalter Burkert,Christoph Riedweg
Inbunden, Tyska, 2024
2 208 kr
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Kleine Schriften X
Varia
AvWalter Burkert,Christoph Riedweg
Inbunden, Tyska, 2025
1 871 kr
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Savage Energies
Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece
AvWalter Burkert
Inbunden, Engelska, 2001
430 kr
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We often think of classical Greek society as a model of rationality and order. Yet as Walter Burkert demonstrates in these essays on the history of Greek religion, there were archaic, savage forces surging beneath the outwardly calm face of classical Greece, whose potentially violent and destructive energies, Burkert argues, were harnessed to constructive ends through the interlinked uses of myth and ritual. For example, in a much-cited essay on the Athenian religious festival of the Arrephoria, Burkert uncovers deep connections between this strange nocturnal ritual, in which two virgin girls carried sacred offerings into a cave and later returned with something given to them there, and tribal puberty initiations by linking the festival with the myth of the daughters of Kekrops. Other chapters explore the origins of tragedy in blood sacrifice; the role of myth in the ritual of the new fire on Lemnos; the ties between violence, the Athenian courts, and the annual purification of the divine image; and how failed political propaganda entered the realm of myth at the time of the Persian Wars.
Sauvages Origines: Mythes Et Rites Sacrificiels En Grece Ancienne
AvWalter Burkert
Häftad, Franska
469 kr
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Walter Burkert – författare

Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism

Savage Energies

Homo Necans

Greek Religion

Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual

Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis

Ancient Mystery Cults

Creation of the Sacred

Greek Religion

Orientalizing Revolution

Violent Origins

Violent Origins

Greek Religion

Greek Religion

Arktouros

Homo Necans

Homo Necans

Klassisches Altertum und antikes Christentum

Homo Necans

Klassisches Altertum und antikes Christentum

Arktouros

Griechische Religion Der Archaischen Und Klassischen Epoche

Kleine Schriften

Kleine Schriften

Kleine Schriften IV

Kleine Schriften V

Kleine Schriften IX

Kleine Schriften X

Savage Energies

Sauvages Origines: Mythes Et Rites Sacrificiels En Grece Ancienne