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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... problem and attempting various solutions . This obsession might suggest that the tactics themselves were new , or it might be a sign of the difficulty of the problem : it is not possible to decide with an artist so original and self ...
... problem was permanent , the immediate impetus to change and its continuing direction remained the same . The problem of survival is more complex . Strictly no society can be archaic ; in the words of the anthropologist Lévi - Strauss ...
... problems , let us suppose these soldiers are typical , and draw tentative inferences . Firstly the inscriptions suggest ... problem emerges in the next reign : when Apries ( 589-70 ) faced a rebellion of his Egyptian forces 234 EARLY GREECE.
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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