Early GreeceHarvard University Press, 1993 - 353 síður Within the space of three centuries leading up to the great Persian invasion of 480 BC, Greece was transformed from a simple peasant society into a sophisticated civilization that dominated the shores of the Mediterranean from Spain to Syria and from the Crimea to Egypt--a culture whose achievements in the fields of art, science, philosophy, and politics were to establish the canons of the the Western world. Oswyn Murray places this remarkable development in the context of Mediterranean civilization. He shows how contact with the East catalyzed the transformation of art and religion, analyzes the invention of the alphabet and the conceptual changes it brought, describes the expansions of Greece in trade and colonization, and investigates the relationship between military technology and political progress in the overthrow of aristocratic governments. |
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... Attica have proved controversial . What is clear is that , whereas the number of datable graves per generation in Attica remained relatively constant in the period 1000-800 , between 800 and 700 they multiplied by a factor of six ; if ...
... Attica may have quadrupled , and almost doubled again in the next fifty years , has met with strong resistance . It has been suggested that the number of graves reflects , not an increasing population but an increasing deathrate , due ...
... Attica ' Historia 12 ( 1963 ) 22–40 ; J. S. Traill * The Political Organization of Attica ( Hesperia Suppl . 14 , 1975 ) . For the ideology behind the reforms see G. Vlastos * ' Isonomia ' American Journal of Philology 74 ( 1953 ) 337 ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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