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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... Chalcis probably lies under the modern town and has not been excavated ; but Swiss and Greek excavations at Eretria show that it emerged suddenly as a prosperous community some time after 825. The period 750- 700 was one of major temple ...
... Chalcis Eretria Samos Miletus ( Herodotus 5.99 ) Erythrae Chios ( Herodotus 1.18 ) Thessalians ( Plutarch , Moralia ... Chalcis on the battlefield , but in most cases the conflict was more indirect ; it is noticeable that pairs of ...
... Chalcis ; the funeral of Amphidamas champion of Chalcis was celebrated with heroic contests modelled on those in epic , at which Hesiod won his prize ( Works and Days 654-7 ) . And on the other side excavations at Eretria have revealed ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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