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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... Figure technique , in which it is the background which is painted black , and the details of the figures are drawn in by brush . So individual are the styles of the different Black Figure and Red Figure artists that the same methods can ...
... figure the Geometric proportions are bodied out to give a freedom of gesture and expression which encourages the portrayal of emotion and narrative . Mythology is liberated ; the figures can be seen to tell complex epic stories , or to ...
Oswyn Murray. source attributes 460,000 to Corinth . But these figures ( and the other figures given in this notorious passage of Athenaeus 6.272 ) are frankly incredible , and in the case of Aegina physically impossible . The problem is ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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