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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... inscription from the shrine of Artemis Amarynthios near Eretria which mentioned a procession of 3000 infantry , 600 horsemen and 60 chariots ( Strabo 10.448 ) – a large force for such a city , and an impressive display of horsepower ...
... inscriptions suggest a remark- able level of literacy and education among the hoplite class throughout the Greek ... inscription and in the passage of Herodotus ; it is clearly not a Greek coining ( what Greek would describe himself ...
... Inscriptions no . 23 = 55F ) The date and purpose of the inscription are not seriously in dispute . It was carved in the late fourth or early third century BC , and set up at Troezen , one of the Athenian places of refuge ( note the ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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