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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... pottery a Panathenaic prize vase b Geometric funerary vase from Athens 3 Miniature sculpture a Ivory Astarte figure from Athens b Images of Sparta : the warrior c Images of Sparta : the woman 4 Rituals a The sacrifice b The symposion 5 ...
... pottery a Panathenaic prize vase b Geometric funerary vase from Athens 3 Miniature sculpture a Ivory Astarte figure from Athens b Images of Sparta : the warrior c Images of Sparta : the woman 4 Rituals a The sacrifice b The symposion 5 ...
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... The archaeological evidence of a certain continuity in the debased style of sub-Mycenean pottery serves to demonstrate the level to which material culture had sunk. The result of the collapse of Mycenean culture was a.
... The archaeological evidence of a certain continuity in the debased style of sub-Mycenean pottery serves to demonstrate the level to which material culture had sunk. The result of the collapse of Mycenean culture was a.
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... pottery began to emerge, of considerably higher quality than before – Proto- Geometric (from about 1050 to 900), decorated with simple repeated geometric patterns and broad bands of dark and light. Again it is to this period, from about ...
... pottery began to emerge, of considerably higher quality than before – Proto- Geometric (from about 1050 to 900), decorated with simple repeated geometric patterns and broad bands of dark and light. Again it is to this period, from about ...
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... pottery shows that the alphabet was used as a natural medium for recording quite trivial occasional poetry by the late eighth century: there is nothing implausible in the view that epic poets were also recording their compositions in ...
... pottery shows that the alphabet was used as a natural medium for recording quite trivial occasional poetry by the late eighth century: there is nothing implausible in the view that epic poets were also recording their compositions in ...
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... pottery and stone; we should not forget the many documents that once existed on wood, parchment, wax tablets and papyrus. Some of the more important documents will be used as evidence later; these are mostly religious or commemorative ...
... pottery and stone; we should not forget the many documents that once existed on wood, parchment, wax tablets and papyrus. Some of the more important documents will be used as evidence later; these are mostly religious or commemorative ...
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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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Aegina Al Mina Alkaios ancient archaeological archaic Archilochos Argos aristocratic Aristotle Athenian Athens Attica battle bronze Cambridge U.P. centre Chalcis claim Classical coinage colonies constitution contemporary Corinth Corinthian culture Cyrene Cyrus Darius Dark Age Delphi Dorian earliest early Greek eastern Egypt Egyptian eighth century epic Eretria established Etruscan Euboea Euboean evidence excavations fact fighting foundation Frag Fragment gods Greece Herodotus Hesiod Homer honour hoplite Iliad important influence inscription institutions Ionian king Kleisthenes Kleomenes land later literacy Lykourgos mainland Miletus military Mycenean myth Odyssey oracle oral original Oxford U.P. Peisistratos Peloponnese perhaps period Persian Persian Wars Phoenician phratry poet poetry political pottery reforms religious ritual settlement seventh century shield shows shrine sixth century slaves social society Solon Spartan style suggests surviving symposion temple Themistokles Theogony Thucydides trade tradition tribes tyranny tyrant Tyrtaios vase warrior wealth Zeus