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.

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

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

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

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

* 1897 – Walter Winchell, American broadcaster and journalist ( d. 1972 )

File: Bardeen. jpg | John Bardeen ( 1908 – 1991 ): awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor and again in 1972 with Leon Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory.

* November 6 – United States presidential election, 1984: Ronald Reagan defeats Walter F. Mondale with 59 % of the popular vote, the highest since Richard Nixon's 61 % victory in 1972.

** Walter Freeman, American physician ( d. 1972 )

** Walter Winchell, American broadcast journalist ( d. 1972 )

** Following her 1972 sex reassignment surgery, musician Wendy Carlos legally changes her name from Walter.

* The Paladin ( 1972 ), the story of Walter Tirel, killer of William Rufus.

The Guyanese historian Walter Rodney ( 1972 ) has argued that it was an unequal relationship, with Africans being forced into a " colonial " trade with the more economically developed Europeans, exchanging raw materials and human resources ( i. e. slaves ) for manufactured goods.

First appearing in 1972, he looks quite like Teacher in miniature ( a play on the DC Thomson comics ' tradition that pets look like their owners — e. g. Dennis the Menace and Gnasher — and his status as teachers ' pet ) and Walter the Softy of the Dennis the Menace strip.

In 1972, Walter Fiers and his team at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of the University of Ghent ( Ghent, Belgium ) were the first to determine the sequence of a gene: the gene for Bacteriophage MS2 coat protein.

The 1972 Yugoslav Partisan film Valter brani Sarajevo ( Walter Defends Sarajevo ) starring Serbian actor Bata Živojinović is one of the most-watched war films of all time, owing mainly to audiences in the People's Republic of China.

* Times Europa was designed by Walter Tracy in 1972 for The Times, as a sturdier alternative to the Times font family, designed for the demands of faster printing presses and cheaper paper.

In 1972, with new technology becoming available, Yale sent the map for chemical analysis by forensic specialist Walter McCrone whose team, using a variety of techniques, found that the yellowish lines contain anatase ( titanium dioxide ) in a rounded crystalline form manufactured for use in pale pigments since the 1920s, indicating that the ink was modern.

In 1972, Cottle County was the only one in Texas north of Maverick County ( Eagle Pass ) to have been won by George McGovern and Walter Mondale won a majority of the county's votes in 1984.

It was closed as a church in 1929, and sold in 1972 to a local filmmaker, Walter Helmuth, who used it as a house.

In 1972, Walter Fiers became the first person to actually prove the existence of the terminating enzyme.

?- 1972 ), first wife of Theater, TV and Film director Walter Grauman

* Walter Lang ( 1896 – 1972 ), film director

Walter Winchell ( April 7, 1897 – February 20, 1972 ) was an American newspaper and radio gossip commentator.

* Walter E. Duffett ( 1957 – 1972 )

However, ice wine was produced in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia by German immigrant Walter Hainle in 1972.

Walter Blake and Carl Linwood Smothers become the first African-American students to graduate from Washington and Lee University in 1972, the same year women were first admitted.