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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... archaeology . From 1870 to 1890 Heinrich Schliemann , a German merchant who left school at the age of fourteen and taught himself Greek in order to read Homer , excavated at Troy , at Mycenae , and at other sites in mainland Greece , in ...
... archaeology and the Linear B tablets , and that implied in the Greek legends . The detailed reconstruction of the Mycenean world therefore rests on archaeology , and must in general be confined to its material culture ; in this sense ...
... archaeology . In more general terms the contribution of archaeology to the study of early Greek history is enormously greater than for most periods of history . It has explained many aspects of the origins and growth of Greek culture ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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