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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... poetry has been shown to be untenable, by the disparity between the evidence on social institutions provided by archaeology and the Linear B tablets, and that implied in the Greek legends. The detailed reconstruction of the Mycenean ...
... poetry has been shown to be untenable, by the disparity between the evidence on social institutions provided by archaeology and the Linear B tablets, and that implied in the Greek legends. The detailed reconstruction of the Mycenean ...
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... poetry, such as its social organization, its material culture and its system of writing. Even the Dark Age itself dropped out of sight: in his sketch of early Greece in book 1 of his history, Thucydides saw a gradual but continuous ...
... poetry, such as its social organization, its material culture and its system of writing. Even the Dark Age itself dropped out of sight: in his sketch of early Greece in book 1 of his history, Thucydides saw a gradual but continuous ...
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... poetry by applying the standards of explanation accepted in his own day . And in the legends and folk memory available to him , he could see much the same general pattern as we can . The legends of the migration period find some ...
... poetry by applying the standards of explanation accepted in his own day . And in the legends and folk memory available to him , he could see much the same general pattern as we can . The legends of the migration period find some ...
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... poetic metre are widespread among primitive peoples. Those who achieve special skill in composing metrically will ... poetry and the practices of the surviving tradition of Serbo-Croatian oral epic, the principles of Homeric oral ...
... poetic metre are widespread among primitive peoples. Those who achieve special skill in composing metrically will ... poetry and the practices of the surviving tradition of Serbo-Croatian oral epic, the principles of Homeric oral ...
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... poetry that his other main work, the Works and Days, is conceived of as an address to his brother Perses on a real occasion, a dispute between the two over the division of their father's land. Hesiod does not therefore seem to belong to ...
... poetry that his other main work, the Works and Days, is conceived of as an address to his brother Perses on a real occasion, a dispute between the two over the division of their father's land. Hesiod does not therefore seem to belong to ...
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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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