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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... probably made for export : the trade was a specialized one in small highly decorated pots containing luxury items such as scented oils . There is the famous story of the Bacchiad Damaratos , who was engaged in the trade with Etruria ...
... probably derives directly from Aristotle's lost Constitution of the Spartans : this conclusion sets the limits of our belief and disbelief . Firstly , since Aristotle was intelligent , the text of the rhetra and the commentary must hang ...
... probably concerned with the passage from girlhood to woman's status , and the occasion is the presentation of a new robe to Artemis Orthia . The excavations at the shrine of Artemis Orthia have shown that eastern and other objects such ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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