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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... ( Thucydides 1.12 ) There are obvious weaknesses in this account . Thucydides had no knowledge of the extent of cultural collapse in the Dark Age , largely because he had little conception of the power and wealth of Mycenean Greece . He ...
... Thucydides describe the colonization of Sicily : this is the only surviving account of the settlement of a particular area , and derives almost certainly from a local historian contemporary with Thucydides , Antio- chos of Syracuse . It ...
... ( Thucydides 6.3 ) This shrine was the common religious centre for the Sicilian colonies ; I argue in an article that it is the ultimate source of the colonial dates given in Thucydides , which are the only exact and demonstrably accurate ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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