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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... institutions were primi- tive and its forms of leadership as yet insecure . The chieftains or big - men of the Homeric world developed into an aristocracy only slowly and in competition with more egalitarian forms of communal life ...
... institutions of different Cretan towns were combined precisely in order to emphasize the points of similarity with Sparta . The individual points of comparison tend either to exhibit important differences ( for instance the status of ...
... institution of the krypteia ( secret society ) shocked even Sparta's admirers : a picked body of young men went out ... institutions which demonstrates most clearly their pseudo- archaism ; for the true archaic or traditional state ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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