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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... facts, but a continuing effort to understand the past and the interconnections between events. Some chapters are little changed, either because they still satisfy me, or because they seem worth preserving as a basic statement from which ...
... facts, but a continuing effort to understand the past and the interconnections between events. Some chapters are little changed, either because they still satisfy me, or because they seem worth preserving as a basic statement from which ...
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... fact against which to determine both the time - scale and the comparative reality of the events related in heroic myth . This basis has been provided by archaeology . From 1870 to 1890 Heinrich Schliemann , a German merchant who left ...
... fact against which to determine both the time - scale and the comparative reality of the events related in heroic myth . This basis has been provided by archaeology . From 1870 to 1890 Heinrich Schliemann , a German merchant who left ...
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... account of the causes of the Persian War was parodied by the comic poet Aristophanes . Herodotus may well in fact have begun like other contemporary literary figures , by lecturing on his travels and researches, and have only later.
... account of the causes of the Persian War was parodied by the comic poet Aristophanes . Herodotus may well in fact have begun like other contemporary literary figures , by lecturing on his travels and researches, and have only later.
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... fact been gathered by chance from different places; when he does this, he seldom declares which version he believes to be correct. It is obvious that such a method left Herodotus largely at the mercy of his informants, who might be ...
... fact been gathered by chance from different places; when he does this, he seldom declares which version he believes to be correct. It is obvious that such a method left Herodotus largely at the mercy of his informants, who might be ...
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... fact less reliable than his history of the mainland . This curious characteristic of the east Greek tradition is related to the overall pattern of his work : it too is a moral story , of the pride of Persia , symbolized in the arrogance ...
... fact less reliable than his history of the mainland . This curious characteristic of the east Greek tradition is related to the overall pattern of his work : it too is a moral story , of the pride of Persia , symbolized in the arrogance ...
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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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