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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... oral epic , the principles of Homeric oral composition are now much better understood . Apart from more complex metrical formulae , names and nouns have different adjectives attached to them , whose function is not primarily to add to ...
... oral poetry that his other main work , the Works and Days , is conceived of as an address to his brother Perses on a real occasion , a dispute between the two over the division of their father's land . Hesiod does not therefore seem to ...
... oral traditions about the past . His practice was in each place to seek out ' the men with knowledge ' , usually priests or officials , and record their account with the minimum of comment . Only occasionally will he give variant ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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