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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... rule . A similar tension between aristocracy and peasantry perhaps explains the development in the status of women in early Greece . Hesiod reflects the general attitude then and later ; but , though the portraits of Penelope and ...
... rule , justice and peace . A whole social ethic is expressed in terms of myth and personification , an ethic in ... rules of guest - friendship ; ' they possess neither counsel - taking assemblies nor themistes , but dwell on the tops of ...
... rule exercised contrary to customary law , or at the whim of the ruler ; and it is contrasted with kingship , which is absolute rule in accordance with customary law , or for the benefit of the subjects . It is regarded by all theorists ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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