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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... honour , even for a one night stand : ' there they stayed the night , and he gave them xeneia ' ( Odyssey 3.490 ) . Odysseus had typically turned the custom to his own profit and was even prepared to ask for his due : he would have been ...
... honour justice and uprightness in men : when fierce and hostile men go against a foreign land and Zeus gives them booty , and they have filled their ships and departed for home , even in the hearts of these men falls mighty fear of ...
... honour and the booty that victory will win . Patriotism is only in place on the Trojan side : Hector was a great hero who fought for his fatherland ( 24.500 ) , and urged others to do the same ( 12.243 ) . But all the same his death was ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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