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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... Dorian state was divided into three tribes , always with the same names ; and there are a number of primitive institutions which can be found in widely separated Dorian communities , such as Sparta and Crete . The Dorians were unknown ...
... Dorian tribes in Sicyon with the insulting names , ' pig - men ' , ' donkey - men ' and ' swine - men ' , while ... Dorian and one non - Dorian , were retained ( Herodotus 5.67-8 ) . Kleisthenes or the tyrants before him may have ...
... Dorian claims . It was part of a general appropriation of Agamemnon , who was moved to Sparta from Mycenae by the poet Stesichoros : his work clearly reflects contemporary Spartan interest in the pre - Dorian world of Menelaus , Helen ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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