Walter Burkert fue un renombrado erudito alemán especializado en mitología griega y prácticas religiosas. Como profesor emérito de Clásicas en la Universidad de Zúrich, influyó significativamente en el estudio de las religiones antiguas a través de sus meticulosas investigaciones y contribuciones académicas. Sus obras, incluyendo "Greek Religion" y "Homo Necans", son consideradas textos fundamentales en el campo, ya que ofrecen profundas perspectivas sobre los comportamientos ritualísticos y las tradiciones mitológicas de la antigüedad.
El enfoque interdisciplinario de Burkert combinaba filología, antropología y religión comparada, lo que lo estableció como una autoridad líder en los cultos griegos antiguos y su significado cultural más amplio. Su carrera docente abarcó instituciones en el Reino Unido y Estados Unidos, donde formó a generaciones de académicos. El legado de Burkert perdura a través de sus rigurosos análisis de los ritos sacrificiales y la intersección entre mito y ritual, que continúan moldeando los estudios clásicos en la actualidad.
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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