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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... created or how they were revised , though Aristotle records an interesting inscription on the Acropolis showing that this did indeed happen : Anthemion son of Diphilos set this up to the gods having been raised to the status of knight ...
... created this earth , who created yonder sky , who created man , who created happiness for man , who made Darius king , one king of many , one lord of many . I am Darius the Great King , King of Kings , King of countries containing all ...
... created from the fruitful interchange between east and west ; that debt was now forgotten . An iron curtain had descended : east against west , despotism against liberty - the dichotomies created in the Persian Wars echo through world ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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