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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... hoplite tactics : by about 700 some form of close fighting must have become common ; or to put the other side , it is impossible that hoplite tactics could have developed fully before these two innovations , which alone gave adequate ...
... hoplite tactics which has survived . The main panel shows two hoplite armies marching in ranks against each other , while two soldiers are still arming on the far left . The left - hand army is kept in step by a flute - player , a ...
... hoplites to the ' naval mob ' of the Athenian democracy ; and although neither he nor any other ancient writer fits early tyranny into this scheme , the tyrants clearly emerged at the point of transition from aristocracy to hoplite ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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