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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... thought of this , you gift - eating nobles , straighten your words , utterly forget crooked judgements . ( Works and Days 256ff ) For Hesiod dikē ( justice ) has replaced timē ( honour ) as the central virtue for the community and its ...
... thought , and which is again probably Meso- potamian in origin . Despite its debt to external models , Hesiod's thought has its own coherence and in a Greek context its own momentum . We have seen how his social preoccupations led him ...
... thought , of philosophy and scientific theory in a form still recognizable to modern practitioners . It is associated with three citizens of Miletus , Thales , Anaximandros and Anaximenes , whose activity falls within the first seventy ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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