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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... claim that an external divine force was responsible , and see no incompatibility . In fact the whole language of psychic pheno- mena is reified and externalized : mental states are identical with their physical symptoms , and head ...
... claim to do so , make a claim without rights . The Aeginetans established a temple of Zeus on their own , the Samians one of Hera , and the Milesians one of Apollo . Naucratis was in the old days the only trading post , and there was no ...
... claim that they were centres for particular groups of merchants : one vase inscription from the Hellenion invokes simply ' the gods of the Greeks ' . A temple to the Dioscuri may in fact be the same as Herodotus ' temple of Zeus , which ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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