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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... centre of Mycenean power , the Pelopon- nese , and in certain areas such as Argos and Sparta they ruled over a serf population of non - Dorian Greeks . Legend explained that they had arrived only recently ; the sons of the semi - divine ...
... centres of display for the archaic aristocracy ; but they were recent phenomena , not found before the sixth ... centre of social and cultural life , whose practices were regulated by ritual and tradition . The president of the ...
... centre , so lengthening their line ; and to avoid the Persian archers they advanced at a run . A fierce battle took place as the Persians repulsed the centre but were pushed back by the wings , until they broke and fled to the ships ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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