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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... earliest religious buildings such as the late Geo- metric temple of Apollo at Eretria . But it is some two hundred years earlier than these buildings , and is neither a chief's house nor a temple . For the purpose of the structure is ...
... earliest version is probably the story of the birth and upbringing of the first imperialist , Sargon King of Akkad : My changeling ( ? ) mother conceived me , in secret she bore me . She set me in a basket of rushes , with bitumen she ...
... earliest pieces of evidence for regular schooling ( Pausanias 6.9.6 , p . 98 ) . Wrestling was less dangerous , and a favourite aristocratic sport : the chief social centre for young aristocrats from the sixth century onwards was their ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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