Savage Energies: Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece by Walter Burkert, Peter Bing

Savage Energies: Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece

Walter Burkert, Peter Bing

152 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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We often think of classical Greek society as a model of rationality and order. Yet as Walter Burkert demonstrates in these influential essays on the history of Greek religion, there were archaic, savage forces surging beneath the outwardly calm fa...

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