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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... important procedural changes in the law : according to Aristotle , his second and third most democratic reforms were the rule that anyone who wishes might take action on behalf of those wronged , and the institution of the right of ...
... important as the exchange of luxury items . Although it cannot of course be quantified , there existed a regular and profitable trade along recognized routes from the Black Sea to the western Mediterra- nean in raw materials such as ...
... important modern work in Greek history . There is no translation . LYRIC POETS The continual discovery of new papyrus fragments has meant the continual re - editing of various parts of early Greek poetry ; unfortunately for the ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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