Homo Necans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Homo Necans write by Walter Burkert. This book was released on 1983. Homo Necans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A milestone, not only in the field of classics but in the wider field of the history of religion. . . . It will find a place alongside the works of Jane Ellen Harrison, Sir James George Frazer, Claude Levi-Strauss, and van Gennep."—Wendy Flaherty, Divinity School, University of Chicago "This book is a professional classic, an absolute must for any serious student of Greek religion."—Albert Henrichs, Harvard University
Ancient Mystery Cults
Ancient Mystery Cults - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient Mystery Cults write by Walter Burkert. This book was released on 1989-10-15. Ancient Mystery Cults available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Greek and Roman Animal Sacrifice
Greek and Roman Animal Sacrifice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Greek and Roman Animal Sacrifice write by Christopher A. Faraone. This book was released on 2012-03-22. Greek and Roman Animal Sacrifice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first general critique of the interpretations of animal sacrifice established by Walter Burkert, the late J.-P. Vernant, and Marcel Detienne.
The Mythological Traditions of Liturgical Drama
The Mythological Traditions of Liturgical Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mythological Traditions of Liturgical Drama write by Christine Schnusenberg. This book was released on 2010. The Mythological Traditions of Liturgical Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This unique, comprehensive work tackles questions posed by the polemics of the Church Fathers against the Roman theater and explores the subsequent developments of Western liturgical drama as a continuation of the Roman theater up to the time of Amalarius of Metz in the ninth century.
Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual
Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual write by Walter Burkert. This book was released on 1982-11-08. Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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
