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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... Themistokles son of Neokles had been archon in 493/2 , when he had demonstrated his interest in the naval future of Athens by building dockyards in the Piraeus . In 483 there was a major new find of silver at the mines of Laurion .
... the council and the assembly ; Themistokles son of Neokles of Phrearrhioi proposed : To entrust the city to Athene protectress of Athens and all the other gods , to give protection and defence against the barbarian on behalf of the land .
... Themistokles decree ; and it was most probably on this occasion ( or another similar to it ) that the Troezen inscription was carved by the people ... Themistokles decree had in fact been serving such propa- THE GREAT PERSIAN WAR 297.
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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