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...

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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...

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...

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

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...

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

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