sources: SRC_BURKERT_ORIENT_REV

The sources grounding every entity classification and relationship in the database (live count on the home page and in v_release_metrics). Primary texts include the Pyramid Texts (c. 2375 BCE), Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, the Masoretic Text, Nag Hammadi corpus, Avesta, Ginza Rba, the Chaldean Oracles, the Corpus Hermeticum, Quran, and more. Secondary scholarship covers standard academic monographs for each tradition.

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SRC_BURKERT_ORIENT_REV Walter Burkert, The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age (Harvard University Press, 1992)   secondary scholarship Documents the 8th-7th c. BCE transmission of Near Eastern — primarily Mesopotamian and Levantine — mythology, literature, and iconography into Greek culture; argues for craftsmen, mercenaries, and merchants as the transmission vectors; documents specific parallels between Mesopotamian and Greek deities, myths, and ritual practices

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