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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... Greece and historical Greece . It was not of course an absolute distinction ; the Greek legends about the age of heroes , and in particular the poems of Homer , were thought by many to be a distorted reflection of a real past , from ...
... Greece became powerful ; when the migrations were over , she sent out colonies , the Athenians to Ionia and many of the islands , and the Peloponnesians to most of Italy and Sicily and some parts of the rest of Greece . All these places ...
... Greece was a literate society in the modern sense , indeed the first literate society of which we have reasonably detailed knowledge . But there is an important qualification : literacy is itself a vague term , covering abilities ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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