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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... ritual practices were at variance with this picture , it is clear that the epic tradition on the one hand , and the individual genius of Hesiod on the other , did influence permanently the development of Greek religion . For instance ...
... ritual crosses a cultural frontier , it suffers a sea change which cannot always be detected beneath the surface continuities . Each foreign phenomenon is misunder- stood or reinterpreted to fit into existing religious and social ...
... ritual as a sign of unnatural cultivation in opposition to normal modes ( Phaedrus 176b ) . The chief feature of Greek cult was the ritual lamentation for the dead Adonis ; but again this was no celebration of the death and rebirth of ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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