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.

* Burkert, Walter.

* 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.

* Burkert Walter ( 1985 ).

* 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

* W. Burkert, Homo necans ( 1971 )

* Burkert, Walter ( 1972 ), Homo Necans pp. 6 – 22

* 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.

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

* Burkert, Walter, Ancient Mystery Cults, Harvard University Press, 1987.

* Burkert, Walter Greek Religion, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-36280-2 ( 1985 ); Orig.

* Burkert, Walter, Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual, Translation, University of California, 1979.

* Walter Burkert, Greek Religion 1985, Harvard University Press, III 3. 3

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

* Burkert, Walter, Greek Religion ( Harvard University Press, 1985 ) esp.

* Burkert, Walter, Greek Religion, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985.

At the sanctuary at Olympia, chthonic night-time libations were offered each time to " dark-faced " Pelops in his sacrificial pit ( bothros ) before they were offered in the following daylight to the sky-god Zeus ( Burkert 1983: 96 ).

The Meliae belong to a class of sisterhoods whose nature is to appear collectively and who are invoked in the plural, though genealogical myths, especially in Hesiod, give them individual names, such as Melia, " but these are quite clearly secondary and carry no great weight " ( Burkert 1985 III. 3. 2 ).

Pan might be multiplied as the Panes ( Burkert 1985, III. 3. 2 ; Ruck and Staples 1994 p 132 ) or the Paniskoi.

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.