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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... seems that warfare in the late Dark Age was heavily dependent on the individual champion and his companions , who constituted almost a warrior class . Only they had the resources to acquire the metal for their equipment : the rest of ...
... seems to be seran , used in Hebrew of the rulers of the Philistines on the Levantine coast . Although there was considerable uncertainty among the Greeks as to when aristocracies succeeded monarchies , monarchy does not seem to have ...
... seems to have been a conflict between new economic groups within the city ; after a number of atrocities on both sides over two generations , arbitrators from Paros placed the government in the hands of the landowners ( Herodotus 5.28 ) ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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