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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... clear that many of the differences between the dialects are the result of divergent development after the various groups had reached their final homes . The third type of evidence is archaeological ; its contribution is more ambiguous ...
... clear whether writing had emerged fully from the status of a craft or skill possessed by a class of scribes . The ... clear awareness of the difference between the nature of consonants and vowels : ' light e ' , ' little o ' , ' big o ...
... clear enough . There are the references to early unrest in Herodotus and Thucydides . Within the rhetra itself , there is the obvious contradiction between the main provisions and the ' additional clause ' , which either represents a ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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