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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... archaic ; in the words of the anthropologist Lévi - Strauss , all societies ' must have lived , endured , and , therefore , changed ' . But an archaic society can be so regarded either in relation to its internal structure , as one ...
... archaic Greece is concerned with the activities of the symposion ; indeed pottery , the leading art form of the period , would scarcely have existed without it . The majority of archaic pottery shapes are functionally related to the ...
... archaic tyrannis ' Talanta 1 ( 1969 ) 19-61 . The importance of the relationship between military class and political power in small communities is emphasised by M. I. Finley Politics in the Ancient World ( Cambridge U.P. 1983 ) . The ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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