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Walter Burkert, La religion grecque à l'époque archaïque et classique. Traduction et mise à jour bibliographique par Pierre Bonnechere. Antiquité/Synthèses 13. Paris: Picard, 2011. Pp. 477. ISBN 9782708409064. €61.00 (pb).

Reviewed by Yulia Ustinova, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (yulia@bgu.ac.il)

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Walter Burkert's Griechische Religion, first published in 1977, was immediately recognized as "the central treatment of Greek religion," to which "enthusiasm is the reader's appropriate response," to cite R. Parker's review of this invaluable

work of scholarship.¹ Then, more than thirty years ago, W. Burkert was already the foremost authority on Greek religion, and since the 1970s, his work has shaped the study of this field, as well as other aspects of Greek culture, by those who accept his views and those who debate them. Griechische Religion is universally praised by the reviewers as a book that "few scholars nowadays could hope to rival."² Its second edition, with many updates and new bibliography, was published in 2011, and after all the years that have passed since the appearance of the first edition, is still