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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... Greek sites . It seems likely therefore that this trade was not in the hands of Etruscans or Phoenicians ( at least initially ) , but rather of Greeks ; even before 750 Euboean pottery is found at Veii and elsewhere in south Etruria ...
... Greek Historians and Greek History ( Manchester U.P. 1969 ) . The fragmentary historians are discussed in L. Pearson Early Ionian Historians ( Oxford U.P. 1939 ) and R. Drews The Greek Accounts of Eastern History ( Harvard U.P. 1973 ...
... Greek Warfare ( Cambridge U.P. 1973 ) ; more generally A. M. Snodgrass Arms and Armour of the Greeks ( Thames & Hudson 1967 ) is a useful introduction . On craftsmen and manual labour in early Greece see A. Aymard ' Hiérarchie du ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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