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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... bronze cauldrons and tripods . The architecture of the Homeric house finds its closest parallels in the same period ... bronze , but for agricultural and industrial tools it is iron- a combination unknown in the real world , where ...
... bronze , heroes , and iron . The general conception is of deterioration until the present age of iron , though not all elements fit this pattern completely , and only the first age and the last two are constructed with any great care ...
... bronze to cover the whole head , apart from a T - shaped aperture for eyes and mouth , it shows considerable skill ... bronze rim , and later a thin bronze covering ; it was often decorated with a geometric or figured blazon ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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