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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... economic cause : ' as Greece became more powerful and its economy developed more , tyrannies were established in many cities , their revenues increasing . . . ' ( 1.13 ) . The economic development of Greece in the seventh century ...
... economic sophistication which Athens had reached by the end of the seventh century ; as Fustel de Coulanges wrote in 1864 , ' it is difficult to believe that the circulation of silver before Solon was such as to create large numbers of ...
... economic behaviour entirely . Much modern work on the economic history of early Greece attempts to establish rigid distinctions relating social class to types of economic activity . The justification for such theoretical constructions ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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