Walter Burkert discerned three components in the prehistory of Apollo worship, which he termed " a Dorian-northwest Greek component, a Cretan-Minoan component, and a Syro-Hittite component.

* Walter Burkert, 1985.

* Burkert, Walter, 1985.

Walter Burkert notes that " Ares is apparently an ancient abstract noun meaning throng of battle, war.

* Walter Burkert, 1985.

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* Burkert, Walter, Greek Religion 1985.

* Burkert, Walter, 1977 ( tr.

A scholar of Greek mythology Walter Burkert writes in Greek Religion, " Nevertheless, there are memories of an earlier aniconic representation, as a pillar in Argos and as a plank in Samos.

* Burkert, Walter, Greek Religion 1985.

* Burkert, Walter, The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age, 1998

* Burkert, Walter, ( 1977 ) 1985.

* Burkert, Walter, 1985.

Walter Burkert notes that in Phaistos she appears in connection with an initiation cult.

Nymphs are personifications of the creative and fostering activities of nature, most often identified with the life-giving outflow of springs: as Walter Burkert ( Burkert 1985: III. 3. 3 ) remarks, " The idea that rivers are gods and springs divine nymphs is deeply rooted not only in poetry but in belief and ritual ; the worship of these deities is limited only by the fact that they are inseparably identified with a specific locality.

Walter Burkert observes that " Frenzied women from whose lips the god speaks " are recorded in the Near East as in Mari in the second millennium BC and in Assyria in the first millennium BC.

" Walter Burkert finds that " the second element da-remains hopelessly ambiguous " and finds a " husband of Earth " reading " quite impossible to prove.

Conversely, Walter Burkert suggests that the Hellene cult worship of Poseidon as a horse god may be connected to the introduction of the horse and war-chariot from Anatolia to Greece around 1600 BC.

" In cult, Poseidon was identified with Erechtheus ," Walter Burkert noted ; " the myth turns this into a temporal-causal sequence: in his anger at losing, Poseidon led his son Eumolpus against Athens and killed Erectheus.

Walter Burkert detects in the Polyphemus episode a subtext that " seems to offer us something more ancient: threatened by the man-eater, men conceal themselves in the skins of slaughtered animals, and thus, disguised as animals, escape the groping hands of the blinded monster.

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* Burkert, Walter, Greek Religion ( 1985 )

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.

The similarity of names between Hestia and Vesta is, however, misleading: " The relationship hestia-histie-Vesta cannot be explained in terms of Indo-European linguistics ; borrowings from a third language must also be involved ," scholar Walter Burkert has written.

Burkert, Walter ( 1972 ), " Homo Necans " pp. 103-108

* Walter Burkert, Homo necans, 1972.

In his preface to the English translation of Homo Necans Burkert, who characterised himself on this occasion as " a philologist who starts from ancient Greek texts and attempts to find biological, psychological and sociological explanations for religious phenomena ", expressed some of the principles underlying a book that had seemed somewhat revolutionary to German readers in 1972 in its consistent application of inter-relationships of myth and ritual, the application to texts of the kind of functionalism espoused in Jane Ellen Harrison's Themis and the use of structuralism to elucidate an ethology of Greek religion, its social aspect.

Though Jerome and Eusebius ( both citing Castor of Rhodes ), and as even late as 1812 John Lemprière euhemeristically asserted that he was the first king of Argos, and Robert Graves that he was a descendant of Iapetus, most modern mythologists understand Inachus as one of the river gods, all sons of Oceanus and Tethys and thus to the Greeks part of the pre-Olympian or " Pelasgian " mythic landscape ; in Greek iconography, Walter Burkert notes, the rivers are represented in the form of a bull with a human head or face.

Walter Burkert has suggested that the Hymn to Apollo, attributed by an ancient source to Cynaethus of Chios ( a member of the Homeridae ), was composed in 522 BC for performance at the unusual double festival held by Polycrates of Samos to honor Apollo of Delos and of Delphi.

Catharsis describes the result of measures taken to cleanse away blood-guilt —" blood is purified through blood " ( Burkert 1992: 56 ), a process in the development of Hellenic culture in which the oracle of Delphi took a prominent role.

The identical ritual is represented, Burkert informs us ( 1992: 57 ), on a krater found at Canicattini, wherein it is shown being employed to cure the daughters of Proetus from their madness, caused by some ritual transgression.

1837 ), in which he maintained that the mythology of Homer and Hesiod came from an Eastern source through the Pelasgians, and reflected the symbolism of an ancient revelation ; as a reconciliation with Judeo-Christian religion, it was, Walter Burkert has said, "" the last large-scale and thoroughly unavailing endeavor of this kind.

Walter Burkert has shown that since Lycurgus of Athens ( d. 324 BC ), who held that " it is the oath which holds democracy together ", religion, morality and political organization had been linked by the oath, and the oath and its prerequisite altar had become the basis of both civil and criminal, as well as international law. Burkert, Greek Religion, trans.

* Burkert, Walter, Homo Necans ( University of California Press ) 1983, III. 7 " The Return of the Dolphin " pp 196 – 204.

* W. Burkert, Homo necans ( 1971 )

According to hunting hypothesis, created by Walter Burkert in Homo Necans, carnivorous behavior is considered a form of violence.

* Burkert, Walter The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early archaic Age ( Harvard University Press ) 1992, pp 91-93.

G. W. Bowersock, W. Burkert, M. C. J. Putnam ( Berlin: De Gruyter, 1979 ) pp. 53 – 62.

Compared to this mighty goddess, who also possessed the earliest temple at Olympia and two of the great fifth and sixth century temples of Paestum, the termagant of Homer and the myths is an " almost ... comic figure " according to Burkert.

Yet there is no trace of a Semitic deity directly connected with Adonis, and no trace in Semitic languages of any specific mythemes connected with his Greek myth ; both Greek and Near Eastern scholars have questioned the connection ( Burkert, p 177 note 6 bibliography ).

* 1988 – 89 Walter Burkert Tracks of Biology and the Creation of Sense

* Claude Burkert ( 1958 – 1969 )

* Konrad Burkert – drums ( 1975 )

Rudolf Burkert ( October 31, 1904, Polubný, Kořenov, Bohemia – 1985 ) was a Ethnic German Czechoslovak Nordic skier who competed in the 1920s and 1930s.