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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... institutions provided by archaeology and the Linear B tablets, and that implied in the Greek legends. The detailed reconstruction of the Mycenean world therefore rests on archaeology, and must in general be confined to its material ...
... institutions provided by archaeology and the Linear B tablets, and that implied in the Greek legends. The detailed reconstruction of the Mycenean world therefore rests on archaeology, and must in general be confined to its material ...
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... institutions which can be found in widely separated Dorian communities, such as Sparta and Crete. The Dorians were unknown to the Homeric account of heroic Greece; yet later they occupied most of what had once been the centre of ...
... institutions which can be found in widely separated Dorian communities, such as Sparta and Crete. The Dorians were unknown to the Homeric account of heroic Greece; yet later they occupied most of what had once been the centre of ...
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... institutions, social customs and values; he must have used these extensively in his attempt to recreate a long lost heroic world. Indeed studies of oral literature in other cultures have noted that one of the main functions of ...
... institutions, social customs and values; he must have used these extensively in his attempt to recreate a long lost heroic world. Indeed studies of oral literature in other cultures have noted that one of the main functions of ...
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... institutional history, often distorted by later political prejudice; it must however be said that some of the political analyses are so crass and some of the documents so blatantly forged that many modern scholars have wanted to believe ...
... institutional history, often distorted by later political prejudice; it must however be said that some of the political analyses are so crass and some of the documents so blatantly forged that many modern scholars have wanted to believe ...
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... institutions of his own day . Archaeological evidence suggests this . Though the poems show a number of Mycenean survivals , the Linear B tablets have revealed a society wholly different from that portrayed in Homer ; equally the scanty ...
... institutions of his own day . Archaeological evidence suggests this . Though the poems show a number of Mycenean survivals , the Linear B tablets have revealed a society wholly different from that portrayed in Homer ; equally the scanty ...
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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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