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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... styles varied from city to city and changed continually , so that it is comparatively easy to work out a relative chronology within each style . The styles of many areas were not widely distributed ; Laconian pottery for instance is ...
... style lasted roughly a hundred years , until the Black Figure style gradually discarded its more exuberant manifestations . Its importance is often played down by art historians , who rightly point out that Greek art was never ...
... style suggests such contact , although most of the individual details of the style can be traced back to earlier wooden buildings or even Mycenean influence . The impact of Egypt is also clear in the new planning of religious complexes ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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