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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... Greek history is the development of the city - state to become the dominant form of government in the Greek - speaking world for roughly a thousand years , enabling city dwellers to control ... Greek political institutions 62 EARLY GREECE.
... early Greece is discussed by P. A. L. Greenhalgh Early Greek Warfare ( Cambridge U.P. 1973 ) ; more generally A. M. Snodgrass Arms and Armour of the Greeks ( Thames & Hudson 1967 ) is a useful introduction . On craftsmen and manual labour ...
... Greek Inscriptions ch . 2 , and the standard work on early Greek inscriptions , L. H. Jeffery The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece ( Oxford U.P. second edition 1990 ed . A. W. Johnston ) . The best study of the ... Greeks 328 EARLY GREECE.
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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