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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... least of the agricultural colonies made use of the natives as peasant serfs . The destruction of many native settlements in and around Greek - controlled areas supports this , and there is a little evidence of separate cemeteries of ...
... least of all Greeks have a prejudice against craftsmen ' ( 2.167 ) , and the attitude goes back to this early period ; already in the eighth century an abnormally high proportion of the best Corinthian pottery was being exported , and ...
... least 348 , when the orator Aischines used it ( Demosthenes 19.303 : this is the earliest surviving reference to it ) . The obvious question arises , was it a forgery made in the interests of the call to political unity in the fourth ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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