Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual
Editorial UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Festland Spanien
- Verlag UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
- ISBN13 9780520047709
- ISBN10 0520047702
- Gegenstandsart BUCH
- Buchseiten 248
- Sammlung Sather Classical Lectures #47
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2005
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Taschenbuch
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Mitologia Greco RomagnaStructure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual
Editorial UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
"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