Walter Burkert (German: [ˈbʊɐ̯kɐt]; 2 February 1931 – 11 March 2015) was a German scholar of Greek mythology and cult. A professor of classics at the University...

and an anagram of aēr (ἀήρ, "air"). So begins the section on Hera in Walter Burkert's Greek Religion. In a note, he records other scholars' arguments "for...

myth has or had a corresponding ritual, or vice versa. The classicist Walter Burkert believes myths and rituals were originally independent. When myths and...

and was taken up as an epithet by Zeus, Zeus Panoptes. "In a way," Walter Burkert observes, "the power and order of Argos the city are embodied in Argos...

politician Rudolf Burkert (1904–1985), German Czechoslovak Nordic skier Karel Burkert (1909–1991), Czech football goalkeeper Walter Burkert (1931–2015), German...

inscriptions, and seems to have survived the process of Hellenization. Walter Burkert records that wine jars are "the only characteristic group of finds"...

eleutho (ἐλεύθω), "to bring", the goddess thus meaning The Bringer. Walter Burkert believed that Eileithyia is the Greek goddess of birth and that her...

the father of two children Euboulus and Chrysothemis. According to Walter Burkert the name Carmanor "does not appear to be Greek". According to second-century...

87. (1983), pp. 299–320. Burkert, Walter, Greek Religion, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985. Burkert, Walter, Structure and History in Greek...

predecessors and everyday experience. Walter Burkert: Weisheit und Wissenschaft, Nuremberg 1962, p. 355. Walter Burkert: Weisheit und Wissenschaft, Nuremberg...

identifiable traces of such people, other than some exceptional instances. — Walter Burkert, 1992. The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek...

Heaven and Earth. Walter Burkert warns that "the Hera festival is much too complicated to be understood simply as Hera's wedding" (Burkert, Greek Religion...

the classicist Walter Burkert. It won the Weaver Award for Scholarly Literature, awarded by the Ingersoll Foundation, in 1992. Burkert's core thesis is...

Master of Animals. Homer's mention of Potnia Theron refers to Artemis; Walter Burkert describes this mention as "a well established formula". An Artemis-type...

Mythology, s.v. "Python" "Apollo Victorious over the Python". The Walters Art Museum. Walter Burkert, "Kynaithos, Polycrates and the Homeric Hymn to Apollo" in...

that have been rededicated to Saints, and in the medieval Melusine. Walter Burkert points out, "When in the Iliad [xx.4–9] Zeus calls the gods into assembly...

single priest and sacrifices were dedicated to Poseidon Erechtheus, Walter Burkert observed, adding "An historian would say that a Homeric, pan-Hellenic...

The name is probably related with a city in Crete named Eleutherna. Walter Burkert believes that Eileithyia is the Greek goddess of birth and that her...

noted in Walter Burkert, The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influences on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age (1992), p 42. Walter Burkert 1992:49...

("sun-worship"). Helios most likely is Proto-Indo-European in origin. Walter Burkert wrote that "... Helios, the sun god, and Eos-Aurora, the goddess of...

Scapegoating", in Robert G. Hammerton-Kelly, eds., Violent Origins: Walter Burkert, René Girard, and Jonathan Z. Smith on Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation...

Philosophers. Vol. VIII. London: Heinemann. Retrieved Apr 22, 2016. Walter Burkert (1972). Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism. Harvard University...

the Roman period, by which point, according to the German classicist Walter Burkert, "the history of Pythagoreanism was already ... the laborious reconstruction...

bound to prominent local groups and hence to specific localities", Walter Burkert has observed, "i.e., the sanctuaries and altars that had been set up...

sited in the temenos of Athena at Sicyon. (Pausanias, 2.11.1; 2.6.3). Walter Burkert, Homo Necans 1983:186 notes the comparison with Athena Poleis at Athens...

Sibyls, prophetesses who uttered divine revelations in frenzied states. Walter Burkert observes that "Frenzied women from whose lips the God speaks" are recorded...

455-456 Walter Burkert, “Orientalische und griechische Weltmodelle von Assur bis Anaximandros”, Wiener Studien 107-108 (1994-1995), pp.179-186 = Burkert’s Kleine...

affair with Ares being exposed. Notably, however, some scholars, such as Walter Burkert, support that the marriage of Hephaestus and Aphrodite as an invention...

sometimes been interpreted in light of human sacrifice in ancient Rome, and Walter Burkert saw it as a form of scapegoat or pharmakos ritual. By the 1st century...

portrayed with bull horns, and in Kyzikos he has a tauromorphic image," Walter Burkert relates, and refers also to an archaic myth in which Dionysus is slaughtered...