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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... earlier period came together to form a polis on a particularly favoured site , and in most cases the continuity of habitation down to the present day has either destroyed or buried the earliest period under the modern city . It has ...
... earlier writer . It was common in antiquity to quote one's main source of information for a subsidiary detail : originally the technique may have been an attempt to make a false claim to originality without losing the reputation for ...
... earlier of the pair , won the first Messenian war about 710 , and is also associated with this document ( or at least some part of it ) by Tyrtaios . The dating of the rhetra involves its historical context . It is earlier than Tyrtaios ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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