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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... surviving remnants of Mycenean culture were again attacked around 1150. The whole military and political organization of the palace economy disappeared , with its attendant skills in the fine arts and writing ; most sites were deserted ...
... surviving tradition of Serbo- Croatian oral epic , the principles of Homeric oral composition are now much better understood . Apart from more complex metrical formulae , names and nouns have different adjectives attached to them ...
... surviving votes . 483 Aristeides son of Lysimachos from Alopeke , archon in 489/8 , known as Aristeides the Just and one of the main architects of the Athenian confederacy after the Persian Wars ; his ostracism seems to have been due to ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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