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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... Corinthian style ; the sack of Athens in 480 offers another fixed point at the end of the archaic age , and there ... Corinthian pottery first about 725 , when the late Geometric style gives way to early proto - Corinthian . The ...
... Corinthian perfumes were made ; Corinthian trade penetrated far into the interior , as the early Greek bronzes found at Trebenishte show . In the north - east the tyrants also founded Potidaea among the earlier Euboean towns on the ...
... Corinthian innovation ( Olympians 13.30 ) : more specifically the Roman writer Pliny attributes the invention of clay modelling and ornaments to Boutades of Sicyon , who worked in Corinth ( Natural Histories 35.151-3 ) . Certainly the ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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