Brilliant...[Burkert] is consistently thorough and challenging...Without denying the role of innate talent, he shows that much of the Greek miracle grew from an openness to influences from other cultures...[His] careful scholarship...has constructed the bridge that he set out to build.
   --Carol G. Thomas, American Historical Review

An elegant and academically influential work...The Orientalizing Revolution can be enthusiastically recommended.
   --Simon Hornblower, Times Literary Supplement

Burkert's The Orientalizing Revolution remains an outstanding, or rather the outstanding, contribution to the question of `Near Eastern influence on Greek culture in the Early Archaic Age.
   --Greece and Rome

This thought provoking work is an updated translation of Burkert's Die orientlisierende Epoche in der griechischen Religion und Literature, 1984...It is refreshing to see a classical scholar follow in the footsteps of eminent Near Eastern scholars such as Cyrus Gordon and Michael Astour who have long argued for interconnections in the ancient Mediterranean world.
   --Mark W. Chavalas, Near East Archaeological Society Bulletin

Walter Burkert is Professor Emeritus of Classics, University of Zurich.

Read More by Walter Burkert:

• Ancient Mystery Cults
• Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in Early Religions
• Greek Religion
• Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture
• Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism