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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... Classical Texts 1968 ) . See also the same author's Epigrammata Graeca ( same series 1975 ) for the epigrams of Simonides . M. L. West Iambi et Elegi Graeci ( Oxford U.P. 1971-2 ) : for Archilochos , Theognis , Kallinos , Mimnermos ...
... Classical Sparta ' Classical Quarterly 36 ( 1986 ) 378-406 ; on military organization and commensality , O. Murray ' War and the symposium ' Dining in a Classical Context ed . W. J. Slater ( Michigan U.P. 1991 ) 83-103 . The excavations ...
Oswyn Murray. of grazing animals see M. H. Jameson ' Sacrifice and Animal Husbandry in Classical Greece ' Pastoral Economies in Classical Antiquity ed . C. R. Whittaker ( Cambridge Philological Society Suppl . 14 , 1988 ) 87–119 . My use ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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