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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... established their settlement shows the typical signs of a trading post : it is on the fringes of an area of advanced civilization , where political control was weak , and where they could gain access to the luxury goods of Mesopotamia ...
... established there is at least comparable to the number already existing in the Aegean area before the colonizing movement began . Expansion on this scale was not matched until the second age of colonization , when the conquests of ...
... established its legal , political and religious institutions : ' he drew a wall round the city and built houses , and made temples of the gods and divided the fields ' , as Homer says in the passage about Phaeacia , which may well ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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