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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... known Greek work in prose , Anaximandros ' book on nature of about 550 . Anaximandros attempted to explain both the underlying struc- ture of the physical world and its development down to the creation of man - it was the substitution ...
... known ; in that year a further 4463 were found in the Kerameikos excavations : these have not yet been properly published , but preliminary information shows that they alter significantly the earlier known distribution of votes ...
... known or thought to have been forged - for instance the obviously false ' decree of Miltiades ' , also used by Aischines ? On the issue of authenticity no agreement has been or ever will be reached . The decree is clearly intended to be ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
Höfundarréttur | |
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