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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... century onwards , with the Cimmerian invasion and the attacks of Lydia , drove the Ionian Greeks into their coastal cities . Even then it seems that in some areas fortified farmsteads preserved a little of the old style of life . Not ...
... century eastern goldsmiths were working in the city ; one of the masterpieces of orientalizing art is the group of ivory statuettes modelled by an Athenian craftsman on the Syrian figurines of Astarte around 730 ( pl . 3a ) . But it was ...
... century was the great age of temple building : it is not possible to compile a full list , but a recent count claims well over 80 certain examples . Of course such activity presupposes a religious motivation , but there is no sign that ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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