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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... literacy in the seventh and sixth centuries , even if we are unable to quantify the degree of literacy or assess its distribution between particular social classes . Archaic Greece was a literate society in the modern sense , indeed the ...
... literacy to Greece is the only known pure revolution in literacy , in that it is the only occasion when the skill was transmitted alone , without either attendant written texts or enforced changes in social forms . The case of Greece ...
... literacy was a contributory or enabling factor ; in many of them it was even perhaps a necessary cause , in that without literacy these developments could not have happened . But whether it was so important as to constitute a sufficient ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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