Walter Burkert war ein renommierter deutscher Gelehrter, der sich auf griechische Mythologie und religiöse Praktiken spezialisierte. Als emeritierter Professor für Klassische Philologie an der Universität Zürich prägte er die Erforschung antiker Religionen maßgeblich durch seine akribische Forschung und akademischen Beiträge. Seine Werke, darunter "Greek Religion" und "Homo Necans", gelten als grundlegende Texte auf diesem Gebiet und bieten tiefgreifende Einblicke in rituelle Verhaltensweisen und mythologische Traditionen der Antike.
Burkerts interdisziplinärer Ansatz verband Philologie, Anthropologie und vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, wodurch er sich als führende Autorität für altgriechische Kulte und deren kulturelle Bedeutung etablierte. Seine Lehrtätigkeit erstreckte sich auf Institutionen im Vereinigten Königreich und den USA, wo er Generationen von Wissenschaftlern ausbildete. Burkerts Vermächtnis lebt durch seine rigorosen Analysen von Opferriten und der Schnittstelle von Mythos und Ritual fort, die bis heute die klassischen Studien prägen.
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Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism
1962
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Homo Necans
1972
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Greek Religion
1977
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Violent Origins
1987
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Savage Energies
1990
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Creation of the Sacred
1996
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Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis
2007
Carl Newell Jackson Lectures Books
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The Development of Greek Biography (By: Arnaldo Momigliano)
1971
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The Making of Late Antiquity (By: Peter Brown)
1976
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Ancient Mystery Cults
1987
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The Roman Near East (By: Fergus Millar)
1993
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Verse with Prose from Petronius to Dante (By: Peter Dronke)
1994
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I Have Always Loved The Holy Tongue (By: Anthony Grafton)
2011
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Ethics After Aristotle (By: Brad Inwood)
2014
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The Empire That Would Not Die (By: John F. Haldon)
2016
Revealing Antiquity Books
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Unruly Eloquence (By: R. Bracht Branham)
1989
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Greek Virginity (By: Giulia Sissa)
1990
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A Chronicle of the Last Pagans (By: Pierre Chuvin)
1990
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Hypatia of Alexandria (By: Maria Dzielska)
1993
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The Craft of Zeus (By: John Scheid)
1994
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Actors in the Audience (By: Shadi Bartsch)
1994
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Prophets & Emperors (By: David Stone Potter)
1994
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The Orientalizing Revolution
1995
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Pompeii (By: Paul Zanker)
1999
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The Invention of Jane Harrison (By: Mary Beard)
2000
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Ruling the Later Roman Empire (By: Christopher Kelly)
2004
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New Heroes in Antiquity (By: Christopher P. Jones)
2010
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Spartacus (By: Aldo Schiavone)
2013
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From Shame to Sin (By: Kyle Harper)
2013
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Public Spectacles in Roman and Late Antique Palestine (By: Zeev Weiss)
2014
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Greek Models of Mind and Self (By: Anthony A. Long)
2015
Sather Classical Lectures Books
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Epochs of Greek and Roman Biography (By: Duane Reed Stuart)
1928
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Phases in the Religion of Ancient Rome (By: Cyril Bailey)
1932
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Catullus and the Traditions of Ancient Poetry (By: Arthur Leslie Wheeler)
1934
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Roman Satire: Its Outlook on Social Life (By: J. Wight Duff)
1936
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The Eclogues of Vergil (By: H.J. Rose)
1942
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Pindar (By: Gilbert Norwood)
1945
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Ovid: A Poet between Two Worlds (By: Hermann Frankel)
1945
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The Greeks and the Irrational (By: E.R. Dodds)
1951
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Personal Religion Among The Greeks (By: André-Jean Festugière)
1954
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Party Politics in the Age of Caesar (By: Lily Ross Taylor)
1961
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The Greek And Macedonian Art Of War (By: Frank E. Adcock)
1962
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Sallust (By: Ronald Syme)
1964
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The Ancient Romances: A Literary-Historical Account of Their Origins (By: Ben E. Perry)
1967
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Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum (By: K.J. Dover)
1968
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Myth: Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures (By: Geoffrey S. Kirk)
1970
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Change and Decline: Roman Literature in the Early Empire (By: Gordon Williams)
1978
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Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual
1980
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The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy (By: Bernard Knox)
1983
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The Justice of Zeus (By: Hugh Lloyd-Jones)
1983
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Pausanias' Guide to Ancient Greece (By: Christian Habicht)
1985
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The Ancient Economy (By: Moses I. Finley)
1985
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The Revolutions of Wisdom: Studies in the Claims and Practice of Ancient Greek Science (By: G.E.R. Lloyd)
1987
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An Archaeology of Greece: The Present State and Future Scope of a Discipline (By: Anthony M. Snodgrass)
1987
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Dionysius and The History of Archaic Rome (By: Emilio Gabba)
1991
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Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire: The Development of Christian Discourse (By: Averil Cameron)
1991
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The Classical Foundations of Modern Historiography (By: Arnaldo Momigliano, Riccardo Di Donato)
1992
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Shame and Necessity (By: Bernard Williams)
1993
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The Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity (By: Alan Shapiro, Paul Zanker)
1995
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Fiction as History: Nero to Julian (By: G.W. Bowersock)
1995
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The Hidden Author: An Interpretation of Petronius's Satyricon (By: Gian Biagio Conte)
1997
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Revenge in Attic and Later Tragedy (By: Anne Pippin Burnett)
1998
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The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault (By: Alexander Nehamas)
1998
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Prayers in Stone: Greek Architectural Sculpture (By: Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway)
1999
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The Poetry of Homer: Edited with an Introduction by Bruce Heiden (By: Samuel Eliot Bassett)
2003
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Greek Roman Empire: Power and Belief under Theodosius II (By: Fergus Millar)
2006
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Creationism and its Critics in Antiquity (By: David N. Sedley)
2007
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Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History (By: Denis Feeney)
2008
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Everyday Writing in the Græco-Roman East (By: Roger S. Bagnall)
2010
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A Free Will: Origins of the Notion in Ancient Thought (By: Michael Frede, David Sedley, A.A. Long)
2011
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Homer the Preclassic (By: Gregory Nagy)
2012
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Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage (By: Helene P. Foley)
2012
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Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up (By: Mary Beard)
2014
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Greek Gods Abroad: Names, Natures, and Transformations (By: Robert C.T. Parker)
2017
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Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome: Between Art and Social Reality (By: Tonio Hölscher)
2018
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Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry (By: Philip Hardie)
2019
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Scenes from Greek Drama (By: Bruno Snell)
2021
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A Greek State in Formation: The Origins of Civilization in Mycenaean Pylos (By: Jack L. Davis)
2022
Walter Burkert Anthologies
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Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum: Processions, Sacrifices, Libation, Fumigations, Dedications; Volume I