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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... land tenure and the development of slavery, as factors leading to change. On this occasion I should like to thank especially Kai Brodersen of Munich, who was responsible for the elegant German translation, and for making many ...
... land tenure and the development of slavery, as factors leading to change. On this occasion I should like to thank especially Kai Brodersen of Munich, who was responsible for the elegant German translation, and for making many ...
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... land of Greece and the existence of a historical core to the Greek legends about the heroic age were established . But whereas Minoan culture was definitely non - Greek , the status of Mycenean culture was uncertain , until in 1952 a ...
... land of Greece and the existence of a historical core to the Greek legends about the heroic age were established . But whereas Minoan culture was definitely non - Greek , the status of Mycenean culture was uncertain , until in 1952 a ...
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... land of the Mycenean Greeks and enslaved some, part of its population. How much historical truth this legend also contains must be decided in relation to evidence of a different type. A second group of legends concerns an expansion of ...
... land of the Mycenean Greeks and enslaved some, part of its population. How much historical truth this legend also contains must be decided in relation to evidence of a different type. A second group of legends concerns an expansion of ...
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... land. Hesiod does not therefore seem to belong to an oral epic tradition in the same sense as Homer: his call to poetry was like the call of a contemporary Old Testament prophet. His father, unsuccessful as a sea trader, had emigrated ...
... land. Hesiod does not therefore seem to belong to an oral epic tradition in the same sense as Homer: his call to poetry was like the call of a contemporary Old Testament prophet. His father, unsuccessful as a sea trader, had emigrated ...
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... land of Phaeacia he meets many basilēes feasting in the house of Alcinous and Alcinous himself says, 'twelve honoured basilēes rule as leaders over the people, and I am the thirteenth' (Odyssey 8. 390–1 ). The basilēes to whom Hesiod ...
... land of Phaeacia he meets many basilēes feasting in the house of Alcinous and Alcinous himself says, 'twelve honoured basilēes rule as leaders over the people, and I am the thirteenth' (Odyssey 8. 390–1 ). The basilēes to whom Hesiod ...
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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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