Early GreeceHarperCollins UK, 19. des. 2013 - 368 síður Now available in ebook format. Within the space of three centuries, up to the great Persian invasion of 480BC, Greece was transformed from a simple peasant society into a sophisticated civilisation which 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 Western world. The author of this book places this development in the context of Mediterranean civilisation, providing an account of the transformation that launched Western culture. |
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... Egyptian history in attempted invasions of Egypt itself by 'the Peoples of the Sea', who may have included groups of Achaeans or Mycenean Greeks in flight. In the Mycenean world itself, the destruction of Troy found in level VIIa ...
... Egyptian history in attempted invasions of Egypt itself by 'the Peoples of the Sea', who may have included groups of Achaeans or Mycenean Greeks in flight. In the Mycenean world itself, the destruction of Troy found in level VIIa ...
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... Egypt; the last fifty years have increased our knowledge of lyric poetry enormously. The earliest of the lyric poets, Archilochos (about 680–40), exemplifies many of these trends. The illegitimate son of an aristocrat on Paros, he went ...
... Egypt; the last fifty years have increased our knowledge of lyric poetry enormously. The earliest of the lyric poets, Archilochos (about 680–40), exemplifies many of these trends. The illegitimate son of an aristocrat on Paros, he went ...
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... Egypt, and the detailed information given in the fragments suggests an ethnographic description of the Mediterranean world based on personal observation and the reports of other travellers. A second work by Hekataios discussed the ...
... Egypt, and the detailed information given in the fragments suggests an ethnographic description of the Mediterranean world based on personal observation and the reports of other travellers. A second work by Hekataios discussed the ...
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... Egypt and as a map maker (Herodotus 2.143, 4.31): the early parts of the work must often cover the same ground in greater depth. Herodotus is also rightly described by a later Greek critic as 'most Homeric'; Homer lies behind the ...
... Egypt and as a map maker (Herodotus 2.143, 4.31): the early parts of the work must often cover the same ground in greater depth. Herodotus is also rightly described by a later Greek critic as 'most Homeric'; Homer lies behind the ...
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... Egyptians in most of their manners and customs exactly reverse the ordinary practices of mankind' (Herodotus 2.35); but it is a less insidious fault than the imposition of a single conceptual scheme on the manifold variety of human ...
... Egyptians in most of their manners and customs exactly reverse the ordinary practices of mankind' (Herodotus 2.35); but it is a less insidious fault than the imposition of a single conceptual scheme on the manifold variety of human ...
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Euboean Society and Trade | |
Colonization | |
Warfare and the New Morality | |
Sparta and the Hoplite State | |
Athens and Social Justice | |
the Economy | |
The Coming of the Persians | |
The Great Persian | |
Plate Section | |
General index | |
About the Author | |
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Aegina Al Mina Alkaios ancient archaeological archaic Archilochos Argos aristocratic Aristotle Athenian Athens Attica battle bronze Cambridge U.P. centre Chalcis claim Classical coinage colonies constitution contemporary Corinth Corinthian culture Cyrene Cyrus Darius Dark Age Delphi Dorian earliest early Greek eastern Egypt Egyptian eighth century epic Eretria established Etruscan Euboea Euboean evidence excavations fact fighting foundation Frag Fragment gods Greece Herodotus Hesiod Homer honour hoplite Iliad important influence inscription institutions Ionian king Kleisthenes Kleomenes land later literacy Lykourgos mainland Miletus military Mycenean myth Odyssey oracle oral original Oxford U.P. Peisistratos Peloponnese perhaps period Persian Persian Wars Phoenician phratry poet poetry political pottery reforms religious ritual settlement seventh century shield shows shrine sixth century slaves social society Solon Spartan style suggests surviving symposion temple Themistokles Theogony Thucydides trade tradition tribes tyranny tyrant Tyrtaios vase warrior wealth Zeus