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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... presents Telemachus with a mixing bowl which he had received from the king of Sidon ( Odyssey 15.113ff ) . If the thing got ... present and the return will be worthy ' ( Odyssey 1.318ff ) ; ' you gave those gifts in vain though you gave ...
... present age of iron , though not all elements fit this pattern completely , and only the first age and the last two are constructed with any great care . This account of the early history of mankind contains one major oddity – the ...
... present joys of feasting in peace . ( Fragment 4.1-10 ) The final scornful metaphor is significantly from the aristocratic world of the feast of honour . The poem goes on to blame the wealthy for the evils which afflict the city and the ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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