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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... Peloponnese , that is in what had once been the Mycenean heartland , Laconia and the Argolid ( and perhaps Messenia ) . From there it had spread across the southern group of Aegean islands to Crete , Rhodes and the south - west coast of ...
... Peloponnese which had once belonged to Agamemnon , thereby asserting a right to Achaean leadership and subordinating their Dorian claims . It was part of a general appropriation of Agamemnon , who was moved to Sparta from Mycenae by the ...
... Peloponnesian fleet ( including full contingents from Corinth and Megara , but not Aegina ) . The land numbers are a different matter . The figures given by Herodotus show only 300 ... Peloponnese opposite THE GREAT PERSIAN WAR 295.
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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