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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... Phoenician settlements both in mainland Greece and the islands , and at the sites of many of their western colonies ... Phoenician culture was technically more advanced , and literate : Phoenician craftsmen may have worked in Greek ...
... Phoenician writing systems is very close . The Greek letter shapes are adapted from Phoenician ; the order of the two alphabets is essentially the same ; and even the names of most of the Greek letters , which have no significance ...
... Phoenician coast and one of the principal luxury goods of antiquity , he may have been plying a route to the Phoenician colony of Carthage . The original site chosen is an island , safe from attack by mainland tribesmen . The island ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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