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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... Herodotus ' book is described in its first sentence : This is the account of the investigation of Herodotus of Halicarnassus , undertaken so that the achievements of men should not be obliterated by time and the great and marvellous ...
... Herodotus ' account of the causes of the Persian War was parodied by the comic poet Aristophanes . Herodotus may well in fact have begun like other contemporary literary figures , by lecturing on his travels and researches , and have ...
... Herodotus on his material , and its consonance with the pattern of east Greek stories suggests an interesting conclusion . Behind the preservation of the past in Ionia lies a moralizing tradition of story - telling found in mainland ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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