What did the Greeks owe the Orient?' The question we can't stop asking (even though we can't answer it)

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ID2131063
AuthorsSuzanne Marchand (0000-0002-2518-4630, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume17
Issue1
Pages117-140
Publication date2010-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArchaeological Dialogues (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1380-2038 • E-ISSN: 1478-2294
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1380203810000140
OpenAlexW2028435529
LanguageEN
References cited28

Reviewing five recent books in German classical and oriental studies, this essay argues that the question of archaic Greece's debts to the Orient remains a particularly lively one in German-speaking Europe. Like their predecessors in previous generations, iconoclastic classicists like Walter Burkert, oriental archaeologists like Ernst Herzfeld (1879-1948) and maverick outsiders like Raoul Schrott have attacked the enraptured view of 'the Greek miracle' familiar to those educated in classicalGymnasien. And yet the question of Greek cultural autonomy is still alive, in part because there are too many uncertainties for it to be answered definitively, and in part because it continues to play a role in attempts to define modern European identity

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Autonomy · German · Greeks · Literature · Miracle · Political science · Classical Studies and Philology · Classics · Cultural History and Identity Formation · Historical Architecture and Urbanism · History · Law · Philosophy

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