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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... central columns and a porch supported by two more columns . Below the walls lay a village of perhaps 500 inhabitants ; the larger houses were of the same megaron type with central columns and hearth , others had stone benches against ...
... central Boeotia , scarcely a day's journey from the cities of Euboea ; and Hesiod , as an immigrant from an area of epic tradition , was ideally suited to hear the call of the Muses , and undertake the task of relating the old disorder ...
... central plain between Mt. Aigaleos and Mt. Hymettos . On the probable assumption that the system remained unchanged into the classical period , we can assert that there were 139 dēmoi , or constitutionally recognized villages ; they ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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