Burkert is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Nancy Ekholm Burkert (born 1933), American artist and illustrator
Martin Burkert (born 1964), German politician
Rudolf Burkert (1904–1985), German Czechoslovak Nordic skier
Karel Burkert (1909–1991), Czech football goalkeeper
Walter Burkert (1931–2015), German scholar
Herbert Burkert, German law professor
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Burkert is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Nancy Ekholm Burkert (born 1933), American artist and illustrator Martin Burkert (born...
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...
Riedweg (2005), p. 27. Burkert (1972), p. 428. Burkert (1972), pp. 429, 462. Kahn (2001), p. 32. Ferguson (2008), pp. 6–7. Burkert (1972), p. 429. Kahn...
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...
disputed. Walter Burkert questions whether Adonis had not from the very beginning come to Greece along with Aphrodite. "In Greece," Burkert concludes, "the...
Volker D. Burkert is a German physicist, academic and researcher. He is a Principal Staff Scientist at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility...
Karel Burkert (1 December 1909 in Újpest – 26 March 1991) was a Czechoslovak football goalkeeper who played for Czechoslovakia in the 1938 FIFA World...
Rudolf Burkert (31 October 1904 – 7 June 1985) was an ethnic German Czechoslovak Nordic skier who competed in the 1920s and 1930s. He won a bronze medal...
daimon…" A daimon is not so much a type of quasi-divine being, according to Burkert, but rather a non-personified "peculiar mode" of their activity.[citation...
Princeton University Press. p. 31f Burkert (1985) p. 289 Erwin Rhode (1961), Psyche Band I, p. 293 Burkert (1985) pp. 34–40 Burkert (1985) p. 40 "Hermes and the...
form of the Doric ἀρά (ara), "bane, ruin, curse, imprecation". Walter Burkert notes that "Ares is apparently an ancient abstract noun meaning throng...
Nancy Ekholm Burkert (born February 16, 1933) is an American artist and illustrator. Her most celebrated work is the picture book Snow White and the Seven...
Jenna Rose Burkert (born May 9, 1993) is a retired American freestyle wrestler and currently an amateur wrestling coach. She won one of the bronze medals...
refers to the oikos: domestic life, home, household, house, or family. Burkert states that an "early form of the temple is the hearth house; the early...
of the "Earth Mother". The caduceus is mentioned in passing by Walter Burkert as "really the image of copulating snakes taken over from Ancient Near...
140; Burkert 1985, p. 200, which gives the Titans as an example of "chthonic gods"; Homer, Iliad 14.270–279. Woodard, p. 92; Hard, pp. 34–35; Burkert 1995...
and Earth. Walter Burkert warns that "the Hera festival is much too complicated to be understood simply as Hera's wedding" (Burkert, Greek Religion, J...
Martin Burkert (born 14 October 1964) is a German politician and member of the SPD. Burkert was born in Würzburg. He has been a member of the German Bundestag...
Herbert Burkert is a German law professor, President of the Research Center for Information Law (FIR-HSG) at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland...
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 name...
the Pelasgians." (Burkert 1985, eo. loc.). Acusilaus, fr. 20; Pherecydes fr. 48; and Herodotus 3..37 are noted by Burkert. Burkert, pp 281-84 Edson, Charles...
considered sacred. Furthermore, Burkert argues that myth and ritual together serve a "socializing function." As an example, Burkert gives the example of hunting...
(Hinduism) Walters Art Museum, accession number 23.40. Hansen, p. 250; Burkert, pp. 125 ff.; Dowden, p. 43; Chadwick, p. 85; Müller, pp. 419 ff.; Pache...
April 2009. Golden 2009, p. 24. Perrottet at 50-51. Finley & Pleket at 15. Burkert 1983, p. 95. Swaddling 1999, pp. 90–93. See, e.g., Finley & Pleket at 24...
earth take vengeance on men, whosoever hath sworn a false oath". Walter Burkert suggests that they are "an embodiment of the act of self-cursing contained...
New York: Vintage Books. p. 3. Burkert, pp. 157–158. Burkert, p. 158. Iris has a similar role as divine messenger. Burkert, p. 156. Homer, 1–512, as cited...
Indo-European myth. Walter Burkert and René Girard have written influential modern interpretations of the pharmakos rite. Burkert shows that humans were sacrificed...
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