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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... the altar of Apollo the Leader which still exists outside the city , and on which the religious delegates from Sicily sacrifice first before they sail ( to the Delphic festivals ) . ( Thucydides 6.3 ) This shrine was the common religious ...
... the first battle where it would have been possible for the Greeks to estimate precisely their oppo- nents . Modern estimates therefore suggest perhaps 200,000 for the army and 600 for the navy . The exact figures are not important ...
... the main evidence for the fall of Kleomenes is discussed in W. P. Wallace ' Kleomenes , Marathon , the helots and Arkadia ' vol . 74 ( 1954 ) 32-5 . For the Peisistratid tyranny see the chapters of A. Andrewes in the new CAH III ch . 44 ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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