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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... reflect these different purposes . The lyric and elegiac poets composed for performance to the lyre and the double flute in drinking parties : their subject matter reflects the interests and preoccupations of particular social groups ...
... reflects the process of urbanization : the scattered settle- ments of an earlier period came together to form a polis on ... reflect the same process , and differ little from each other ; chronologically both occur at much the same time ...
... reflect both the increasing importance of warfare and its changing nature . It belongs to a world of warrior groups feasting together and preparing for battle : but whereas the Homeric bard instructs through narrative description of the ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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