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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... Eretria show that it emerged suddenly as a prosperous community some time after 825. The period 750- 700 was one of major temple building , and in the next century there were considerable public works in fortification and to control the ...
... Eretria Samos Miletus ( Herodotus 5.99 ) Erythrae Chios ( Herodotus 1.18 ) Thessalians ( Plutarch , Moralia 760 ) Corinth Sparta Megara Messenia ? Other cities may be added with less certainty , but these names are already impressive ...
... Eretria have revealed by the West Gate looking towards the road to the Lelantine Plain a shrine with many seventh century offerings and sacrifices over a group of six warrior cremations from the period 720-680 ; the central and earliest ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
Höfundarréttur | |
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