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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... success in military leadership . Part of the paradox of a dual kingship can perhaps be avoided by recognizing that they were never kings in the conventional sense ; as Aristotle pointed out in a careful discussion of different types of ...
... successful of such poets , Anakreon of Teos in Ionia . Born about 572 , he escaped with the rest of the citizens during ... success in love . The setting is the symposion , with its laden tables , scented garlands and beautiful servants ...
... successful . They raised most of the cities of the coast from the Hellespont to the south of Asia Minor ; the Greek ... success ; in the fifth year of the revolt ( 494 ) on the island of Ladē off Miletus they mustered for the defence of ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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