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 Rome giving is for a return , and establishes a social relationship between giver and recipient in which one is temporarily or permanently under an obligation to the other . IV The End of the Dark Age : the Community 54 EARLY ...
... Greece , a source of raw materials such as timber and the flowers from which Corinthian perfumes were made ; Corinthian trade penetrated far into the interior , as the early Greek bronzes found at Trebenishte show . In the north - east ...
... Greece had begun in 484 ; they took four years . On the route to Greece a canal was dug through the promontory of Mt Athos ( taking three years of labour ) ; the river Strymon was bridged , and huge quantities of stores were amassed in ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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