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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... 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 , whose function ...
... tradition should be recorded separately : the contamination of two or more traditions produces an account which it ... tradition . All oral tradition consists of a chain of testimonies ; in general the effective range for resonably ...
... tradition is related to the overall pattern of his work : it too is a moral story , of the pride of Persia ... tradition of story - telling found in mainland Greece only at Delphi , a tradition of which Herodotus is himself a ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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