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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... earliest civilizations intheland of Greece andtheexistence of a historical coretothe Greek legends aboutthe heroic agewere established. But whereas Minoan culture wasdefinitely nonGreek, the status of Mycenean culture was uncertain ...
... earliest civilizations intheland of Greece andtheexistence of a historical coretothe Greek legends aboutthe heroic agewere established. But whereas Minoan culture wasdefinitely nonGreek, the status of Mycenean culture was uncertain ...
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... earliest religious buildings such as the late Geometric temple of Apollo at Eretria. But it is some two hundred years earlier than these buildings, andis neither a chief's house nora temple. Forthe purposeof the structure is clear ...
... earliest religious buildings such as the late Geometric temple of Apollo at Eretria. But it is some two hundred years earlier than these buildings, andis neither a chief's house nora temple. Forthe purposeof the structure is clear ...
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... earliest of the lyric poets, Archilochos (about 680–40), exemplifies many of these trends. The illegitimate son ofan aristocrat onParos,he went toThasos whenhis father leda colony there,and spentmost of his lifeasasoldier untilhewas ...
... earliest of the lyric poets, Archilochos (about 680–40), exemplifies many of these trends. The illegitimate son ofan aristocrat onParos,he went toThasos whenhis father leda colony there,and spentmost of his lifeasasoldier untilhewas ...
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... earliest inscriptions ofmore thanafew wordsarein verse,but writing was quickly and widely used torecord almost anything;for the period from the beginning of Greek writing downto thePersian Warswell over 5000inscriptions are known ...
... earliest inscriptions ofmore thanafew wordsarein verse,but writing was quickly and widely used torecord almost anything;for the period from the beginning of Greek writing downto thePersian Warswell over 5000inscriptions are known ...
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Myth Historyand Archaeology II Sources | |
the Economy XIV The Comingof the Persians XV The Leadership of Greece Sparta and Athens | |
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