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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... hand , and the individual genius of Hesiod on the other , did influence permanently the development of Greek religion . For instance the dominance of myth over ritual is in marked contrast to other polytheistic religions , as is the ...
... hand- to - hand combat and the need for better defensive armour . But there has been considerable controversy about the precise nature of this relationship , and this has led to two theories about the dating of the change , one ...
... hand of Agariste , daughter of Kleisthenes tyrant of Sicyon . After winning the chariot race at the Olympic Games ( of 572 ? ) Kleisthenes caused it to be announced that anyone who thought himself worthy of the hand of his daughter ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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