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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... evidence suggests that in the period 750-650 writing became widespread in Greece ; the earliest poets whose work was recorded in writing may well have been Hesiod and Archilochos , if not Homer . Lists of magistrates and victors go back ...
... Evidence which goes back to the Olympic victor lists and is likely to be reliable suggests that there was a disturbance of the normal games in the 28th Olympiad ( or four - year Olympic cycle : 668 ) , and perhaps also in the 8th ...
... evidence for the institution of ostracism is continually increasing , as yet more discarded ostraka are found in the Athenian agora , on the Acropolis , and most recently in the potters ' quarter ( Kerameikos ) . Up to 1967 , 1658 ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
Höfundarréttur | |
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