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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... temple . The major innovations are connected with the use of clay in building and decoration . The invention of clay roofing tiles ( called Corinthian ) and the use of side colonnades gave the typical low - pitched roof supported by ...
... temple building are secular . The movement is one of experiment and competition . The temple of Artemis at Corcyra , erected about 580 , was the first stone temple in Greece ; by the middle of the century temples of considerable size ...
... temple , the so - called Old Parthenon , which was still under construction in 480 when the Persians arrived , and ... temple of the 5208 . The temple of 560 seems then to be the original temple of Athena Polias ( Athena of the City ) ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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