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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... Cyrene between Egypt and the Phoenician sphere of Carthage suggests better understanding of the factors important in founding a colony than existed on Thera . Other elements are peculiar to Cyrene . We might attribute the emergence of a ...
... Cyrene and , after investigating everything , divided them into three tribes , the first of the Therans and dwellers - about , the second of Peloponnesians and Cretans , the third of islanders ' ( 4.161 ) . The second two groups are ...
... Cyrene is discussed in Graham's book and also by him in " The authenticity of the horkion tōn oikisterōn of Cyrene ' Journal of Hellenic Studies 80 ( 1960 ) 94-111 ; L. H. Jeffery " The pact of the first settlers at Cyrene ' Historia 10 ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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