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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... Lykourgos - thus , in the early fourth century the exiled king Pausanias wrote an account of the ' constitution of Lykourgos ' designed to further his own political aims ; and successive kings of Hellenistic Sparta in the late third ...
Oswyn Murray. great historical importance in Plutarch's Life of Lykourgos , to whom Plutarch of course attributes it : So eager was Lykourgos to establish this government that he obtained an oracle about it from Delphi , which they call ...
... Lykourgos 15 ) . The actual marriage ceremony expressed the subordination of the women to male society : it took the form of a ritual seizure of the woman , who then had her head shaved , and was dressed as a man to await the bridegroom ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
Höfundarréttur | |
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