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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... shrine of Delphi is of central importance : the Delphic tradition is not usually political ; it is rather popular and moralizing . Often the stories are clearly related to particular monuments or offerings at the shrine ( which is how ...
... shrines , from which by various means the enquirer might obtain advice about his future actions and their conse- quences , were already widely known : Homer mentions the shrine of Zeus at distant Dodona in Epirus and that of Apollo at ...
... shrine in the Gathering Place ; when he was prevented by the Delphic oracle , who said ' Adrastos was ruler of Sicyon but you are merely a stone - thrower ' ( that is , too low - born to be even a warrior ) , Kleisthenes imported the ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
Höfundarréttur | |
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