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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... important ways, and it is time for the results to be made available to the general reader. But the Fontana History of the Ancient World attempts not only to present an up-to-date account. In the study of the distant past, the chief ...
... important ways, and it is time for the results to be made available to the general reader. But the Fontana History of the Ancient World attempts not only to present an up-to-date account. In the study of the distant past, the chief ...
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... important aspects of the world that they portrayed in heroic poetry, such as its social organization, its material ... importance for history. The first is the explanation of the origins of the Dorians. In historical times the ...
... important aspects of the world that they portrayed in heroic poetry, such as its social organization, its material ... importance for history. The first is the explanation of the origins of the Dorians. In historical times the ...
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... important and most puzzling Dark Age monument yet found. It is a building dating from about 950 BC , apsidal with a porch at the other end, at least 47 metres long by 10 metres wide, with complex internal dividing walls, an external ...
... important and most puzzling Dark Age monument yet found. It is a building dating from about 950 BC , apsidal with a porch at the other end, at least 47 metres long by 10 metres wide, with complex internal dividing walls, an external ...
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... importance of Athens in it are confirmed. But the earlier period is very obscure. The change in burial customs might indicate the arrival of a new people, the Dorians; but it could be explained as merely a reversion to older habits (the ...
... importance of Athens in it are confirmed. But the earlier period is very obscure. The change in burial customs might indicate the arrival of a new people, the Dorians; but it could be explained as merely a reversion to older habits (the ...
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... important vehicle for public expression in the seventh and sixth centuries, but it was influenced in various ways by literacy: these ways are all related to the function of writing in preserving accurately the work of particular poets ...
... important vehicle for public expression in the seventh and sixth centuries, but it was influenced in various ways by literacy: these ways are all related to the function of writing in preserving accurately the work of particular poets ...
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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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