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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... status of Mycenean culture was uncertain, untilin1952 ayoung English architect, Michael Ventris, deciphered the tablets from the destruction levels at Pylos on the mainland and at Mycenean Knossos. The syllabic script knownas Linear B ...
... status of Mycenean culture was uncertain, untilin1952 ayoung English architect, Michael Ventris, deciphered the tablets from the destruction levels at Pylos on the mainland and at Mycenean Knossos. The syllabic script knownas Linear B ...
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... status as the spokesmen of the community, in their dual functions of preserving the past and interpreting the present.The earliest survivingliterary evidence forthe historyof Greece ispoetic;the advent ofwriting in the eighthcentury ...
... status as the spokesmen of the community, in their dual functions of preserving the past and interpreting the present.The earliest survivingliterary evidence forthe historyof Greece ispoetic;the advent ofwriting in the eighthcentury ...
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... status and behaviour of everyone involved, so that characters appear generally to belong to the highest social class and to possess great wealth and extraordinary abilities, in implicit contrastwith the inequalitiesand squalor ...
... status and behaviour of everyone involved, so that characters appear generally to belong to the highest social class and to possess great wealth and extraordinary abilities, in implicit contrastwith the inequalitiesand squalor ...
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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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