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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... slave had a value and a recognized position in society ; nor was he responsible for his own misfortune . ' But at least I shall be master of my own house and of the slaves whom great Odysseus captured for me ' , says Telemachus ...
... slaves , from the Thraceward region silver , hides , timber and slaves , and from the Black Sea corn , dried fish and slaves again . Generally trade of this sort was a consequence rather than a cause of colonization , though cities like ...
... slave - owning society ; but it does not seem to have been until the sixth century that slaves became important to the economy . The most explicit evidence for the phenomenon ( though not the date ) comes from the fourth century ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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