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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... tyranny . Aristotle ( Politics 5.1315b ) is more reliable in attribut- ing the success of the Orthagorid tyranny to their popularity and mildness , and to the military abilities of Orthagoras ' most famous successor , Kleisthenes ...
... Tyranny at Corinth under Kypselos and Periandros ( 625-585 ) 650+ Chigi vase Tyranny of Orthagoras of Sicyon 640 Tyranny of Theagenes of Megara 632 Attempted tyranny of Kylon at Athens 630 Foundation of Cyrene 670 onwards : Decline of ...
Oswyn Murray. IX TYRANNY The best general account of tyranny is A. Andrewes The Greek Tyrants ( Hutchinson 1956 ) , who originated the empha- sis on the hoplites as a basic factor in the explanation of tyranny ; see also the articles of ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 I 1 | 1 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
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