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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... equal shares in the land ( Frag . 34 , p . 144 ) . On the other hand he also said that he ' tore up the marker - stones ( horoi – the usual word for boundary stones ) planted in many places ' , and freed the earth . Certain obsolete ...
... equal tribes ; and Aristotle says that his distribution was done by lot ( Constitution of the Athenians 21.4 ) . If his statement is correct , this could have led to variations of size between tribes of up to 42 % larger and 32 ...
... equal order ( isonomous ) . ( Page no . 895 ) In contrast the period from 508 to 480 reveals a succession of democratic changes in the spirit of the Kleisthenic reforms . In 501/0 a councillors ' oath was introduced , demonstrating the ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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