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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... individuals , in ways which are especially important , because they were the basis of the subsequent development of ... individual cases and specific rules : the actual decisions ( dikai ) are ' straight ' or ' crooked ' according to ...
... individual immigrants whom Archilochos calls ' the dregs of the Greeks ' ; lacking the group power to assert themselves against those who were already established , they received peripheral land and were excluded from positions of ...
... individual motifs and in the style of polychrome decoration ; one sixth century Athenian potter - painter was called Amasis . Contemporary furniture shows Egyptian influence , as does fresco painting . But the major impact was in ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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