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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... fragment of Tyrtaios ' poem called Eunomia ( good order ) , arranged into a coherent narrative . This is quite unlike Plutarch's normal practice , and since the whole passage is a unity , it is clear that he has taken it from one ...
... ( Fragment 16 = 13D ) Sardis was capital of the Lydian kingdom in Asia Minor ; Alkman's poetry certainly reflects a society of high culture open to eastern influences and fascinated by the exotic ; he was interested in cosmogony and in ...
... FRAGMENTS Much of the literary evidence for this period comes from works which survive only in ' fragments ' , either quoted or referred to in later authors , or surviving partially on papyrus copies from the Graeco - Roman settlements ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
Höfundarréttur | |
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