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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... phratries , Agamemnon , so that phratry may help phratry and tribes tribes ' ( Iliad 2.362f ; see also 9.63 ) . The tribes were originally military divisions , the phratries presum- ably also - the old word perhaps for the bands of ...
... phratry seems to have been dominated by one or two noble families ( see below p . 276 ) . And long after they lost their political role the phratries continued as cult groups and social clubs . Other less tangible attitudes survived ...
... phratry organization ( p . 54 ) , and especially the removal of its control over the right to citizenship . It is doubtful whether a complete citizen list existed under the Solonian constitution , which strictly required only lists of ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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