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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... possessed later - the olive . Olive oil was already used in washing ( like soap ) , but not yet apparently for lighting and cooking : the main hall was lit with braziers and torches , not oil lamps , and they cooked with animal fat . It ...
... possessed their own histories . Neither written documents nor the oral traditions recorded by Herodotus reach back beyond about 650 , to the earliest founda- tions ; the individual stories of these are either lost or unreliable . But by ...
... possessed either royal office or a particular magistracy ; thus Pheidon in Argos and others became tyrants when they already had royal power , while the Ionian tyrants and Phalaris rose from magistracies ; and Panaitios at Leontini ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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