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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... particular the poems of Homer, were thought by many to be a distorted reflection of a real past, from which it might in principle be possible to discover what had actually happened, even if no reconstruction had yet won general ...
... particular the poems of Homer, were thought by many to be a distorted reflection of a real past, from which it might in principle be possible to discover what had actually happened, even if no reconstruction had yet won general ...
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Oswyn Murray. equipment and provisions stored in the palace, and relate to the particular year of destruction (the clay tablets survive only because they were accidentally baked in the fires which burnt the palaces). Moreover the ...
Oswyn Murray. equipment and provisions stored in the palace, and relate to the particular year of destruction (the clay tablets survive only because they were accidentally baked in the fires which burnt the palaces). Moreover the ...
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... particular positions in the hexameter line. Asaresultof thework of Milman Parry on the similarities between Homeric poetry andthepractices ofthe surviving tradition of SerboCroatian oral epic,the principles ofHomeric oralcomposition are ...
... particular positions in the hexameter line. Asaresultof thework of Milman Parry on the similarities between Homeric poetry andthepractices ofthe surviving tradition of SerboCroatian oral epic,the principles ofHomeric oralcomposition are ...
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... particular poets. References inHomer show that othertypes of poetry, songs of celebration, wedding songs, victory songs and dirges, alreadyexisted alongside epic; butthere seemstohave been noguildof professional singerstoensure ...
... particular poets. References inHomer show that othertypes of poetry, songs of celebration, wedding songs, victory songs and dirges, alreadyexisted alongside epic; butthere seemstohave been noguildof professional singerstoensure ...
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... particular social groups, the warriors and the aristocrats in their symposia. Chorallyric was usually performedat religious festivals or othergreat occasions by trained choirs of men or girls singing and dancing to instrumental ...
... particular social groups, the warriors and the aristocrats in their symposia. Chorallyric was usually performedat religious festivals or othergreat occasions by trained choirs of men or girls singing and dancing to instrumental ...
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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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Further reading General index About the Author | |
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