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Walter Burkert (German: [ˈbʊɐ̯kɐt]; born 2 February 1931, Neuendettelsau; died 11 March 2015, Zurich) was a German scholar of Greek mythology and cult.
A professor of classics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, he taught in the UK and the US. He has influenced generations of students of religion since the 1960s, combining in the modern way the findings of archaeology and epigraphy with the work of poets, historians, and philosophers.
He published books on the balance between lore and science among the followers of Pythagoras, and more extensively on ritual and archaic cult survival, on the ritual killing at the heart of religion, on mystery religions, and on the reception in the Hellenic world of Near Eastern and Persian culture, which sets Greek religion in its wider Aegean and Near Eastern context.
Burkert married Maria Bosch in 1957 and has three children, Reinhard, Andrea and Cornelius. His career as a successful scholar was clearly foreseen in his early years, as a student in higher education. He studied classical philology, history, and philosophy at the Universities of Erlangen and Munich (1950–1954), and obtained his doctorate in philosophy at Erlangen in 1955. He became an Assistant in course teaching at Erlangen for five years (1957–1961) and, following his marriage, returned to his former University as Lecturer for another five years (until 1966). From early 1965 he worked as a Junior Fellow in the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. for one year. The first academic era of his life ended with a placement as Professor of Classical Philology at the Technical University of Berlin (1966–1969), and as Guest Professor at Harvard University for a year (1968).
Le radici del pensiero filosofico - Pitagora (Walter Burkert,Marcel Detienne,G.Pugliese Carratelli)
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Who decides who is blessed, who knows the mysteries, and who has guilt? Homo Necans by Walter Burkert http://www.amazon.com/Homo-Necans-Anthropology-Ancient-Sacrificial/dp/0520058755
6.Funerary Ritual. " Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even before Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in Walter Burkert's famous study - first published 1972.
4. Myth and Ritual. Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even before Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in Walter Burkert's famous study - first published 1972.
Homo Necans: The Sexualisation of Ritual Killing Maiden Sacrifice, Phallus cult. Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even before Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in Walter Burkert's famous study - first published 1972.
Homo Necans: Father God and Great Goddess. Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even before Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in Walter Burkert's famous study - first published 1972.
Some thoughts on the Greco-Roman influence of Christian theology. It was Cleisthenes of Athens in 510 bce who abolished the old heros and tribes assigned new. Book: Greek religion By Walter Burkert http://www.amazon.com/Greek-Religion-Walter-Burkert/dp/0674362810
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5. The Function and Transformation of Ritual Killing. "Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even before Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in Walter Burkert's famous study - first published 1972.
The Evolutionary Explanation: Primitive man as Hunter. "Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even before Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in Walter Burkert's famous study" - first published 1972.
I sit on the stairs and read..."Sacrifice as an act of killing". Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even before Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in Walter Burkert's famous study - first published 1972.
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcluftdk1tuDU71ZdGNpHTA Dan Attrell (MA) gives a lecture on the subject of the Eleusinian Mysteries, a secret cult which endured over a thousand years, and into which most classical Athenians had been formally initiated. Visit http://www.themodernhermeticist.wordpress.com for more information and for other lectures by Dan Attrell. Bibliography Angus, Samuel. Mystery Religions & Christianity (Kessinger Publishing, 2003). (http://amzn.to/1Pyj6nm) Burkert, Walter. Ancient Mystery Cults. Harvard University Press, 1989. (http://amzn.to/1JRwgPZ) Burkert, Walter. Greek Religion. Harvard University Press, 1982. (http://amzn.to/1JRwhTU) Carpenter, Edward. Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning (New York, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1920). (http:/...
Zeus is the child of Cronus and Rhea, and the youngest of his siblings. In most traditions he is married to Hera, although, at the oracle of Dodona, his consort is Dione: according to the Iliad, he is the father of Aphrodite by Dione. He is known for his erotic escapades. These resulted in many godly and heroic offspring, including Athena, Apollo and Artemis, Hermes, Persephone (by Demeter), Dionysus, Perseus, Heracles, Helen of Troy, Minos, and the Muses (by Mnemosyne); by Hera, he is usually said to have fathered Ares, Hebe and Hephaestus. As Walter Burkert points out in his book, Greek Religion, "Even the gods who are not his natural children address him as Father, and all the gods rise in his presence." For the Greeks, he was the King of the Gods, who oversaw the universe. As Pausanias...
Dan Attrell (MA) gives a brief talk entitled "Regina Magica: ‘Sympathetic Magic,’ the φαρμακός motif, and Dido’s Rituals in Book IV of the Aeneid" in defense of the 'magical' character of Dido's suicide. Bibliography Burkert, Walter. Greek Religion. London: Cambridge University Press, 1985. DeWitt, Norman Wentworth. The Dido Episode in the Aeneid of Vergil. Toronto: William Briggs, 1907. Dubois, Page. "The φαρμακός of Vergil: Dido as Scapegoat." Vergilius, 1976: 14-23. Frazer, James G. Adonis Attis Osiris: Studies in the History of Oriental Religion. New York: MacMillan and Co., 1906. Frazer, James George. The Golden Bough. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Goud, T. E., and J. C. Yardley. "Dido's Burning Effigy: Aeneid 4.508." Rheinisches Museum für Philologie, Neue Folge, 13...