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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... Odyssey 14.64 ) . It is the details of the division by lot of their father's estate which Hesiod and his brother are quarrelling about ( Works and Days 37 ) , and Hesiod proclaims , work hard ' that you may buy the klēros of others ...
... ( Odyssey 11.488ff ) . The life of a labourer is scarcely different from that of a beggar , for both are free men who have lost their position in society as completely as they can , and are dependent on the charity of another - only the ...
... ( Odyssey 15.82ff ) . Such gifts were due under all circumstances as a matter of honour , even for a one night stand : ' there they stayed the night , and he gave them xeneia ' ( Odyssey 3.490 ) . Odysseus had typically turned the custom ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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