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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... suggests that they were not racially distinct ; the Killyrioi may for instance have been the descendants of an early ... suggest that such forms of servitude were rare enough to cause comment , at least in relation to groups which ...
... suggest that the original impetus came from the near east ; the distinctive horsehair crest is also eastern , and ... suggests that for both helmet and shield the crucial development is Greek . The commonest hoplite form of helmet is ...
... suggests that he was a very successful military leader . Herodotus describes him as ' the man who established the system of measures for the Peloponnesians and performed the most arrogant action of any Greek , when he turned out the ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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