๐ฆ Cozy up with autumn reads! Let our AI Librarian pick your perfect fireside book ๐
Explore the literary world of this author
A survey of the religious beliefs of ancient Greece covers sacrifices, libations, purification, gods, heroes, the priesthood, oracles, festivals, and ...
The foremost historian of Greek religion provides the first comprehensive, comparative study of a little-known aspect of ancient religious beliefs and...
Archaic and Classical
"Greek Religion . . . already has the standing of a classic, and the publication of an English version, which incorporates new material and is in effe...
For this first English edition of his distinguished study of Pythagoreanism, Weisheit und Wissenschajt: Studien zu Pythagoras, Philolaos, und Platon, ...
The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth
Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christ...
...
Walter Burkert, Renรฉ Girard, and Jonathan Z. Smith on Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation
Burkert, Girard, and Smith hold important and contradictory theories about the nature and origin of ritual sacrifice, and the role violence plays in r...
Sacrifice is essential to all religions. Could there be a natural, even biological, reason? Why are sacrifice and numerous other religious rituals and...
Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age
Ancient Greek culture is often described as a miracle, owing little to its neighbors. Walter Burkert argues against a distorted view, toward a more ba...
Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece
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 h...
Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture
At the distant beginning of Western civilization, according to European tradition, Greece stands as an insular, isolated, near-miracle of burgeoning c...
Das Lebenswerk des Zurcher Altertumswissenschaftlers Professor Dr. Walter Burkert, der im Februar 2001 siebzig Jahre alt wird, soll auf Initiative sei...
Studies in the Nature of Greek Divinity
In recent study Greek religion has often dissolved itself into many religions. These essays focus both on extremes of the Greek world and on its class...
New Evidence and Old Problems of Interpretation : Protocol of the Twenty-eighth Colloquy, 13 March 1977