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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... Tyrtaios of Sparta , composing during the second half of the century : his poems describe the formation fighting of hoplites , the clash of ' hollow shield on shield ' ( a new epithet describing the new shape ) , the corporate ...
... Tyrtaios who first made this attitude explicit in what a later war poet , Wilfrid Owen , called ' the old lie ' : " To die is glorious , when a brave man falls among the front ranks fighting for his fatherland ' ( Frag . 10.1-2 = 7D ) ...
... Tyrtaios , who deliberately changes its emphasis : it is the kings who are important , then the council , while the people are merely to answer correctly ( Diodorus 7.12.6 preserves an oracle which uses four of Tyrtaios ' lines and ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
Höfundarréttur | |
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