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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... fact clear whether writing had emerged fully from the status of a craft or skill possessed by a class of scribes . The biblical evidence of course refers to a culture more backward than the cities of the coast , but it suggests the ...
... fact easy to build up a picture of the actual process of colonization : the scattered facts that survive are often anecdotal , and may well be misleading ; for each foundation must have been influenced by special considerations as much ...
... fact Herodotus says that 20 ships were lent to colonists from Chalcis ( 8.1 ) ; and on other grounds it might be reasonable to put the total adult male population in 480 at nearer 20,000 than 40,000 , given the known total of hoplites ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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