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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... surviving remnants of Mycenean culture were again attacked around 1150. The whole military and political organization of the palace economy disappeared, with its attendant skills in the fine arts and writing; most sites were deserted or ...
... surviving remnants of Mycenean culture were again attacked around 1150. The whole military and political organization of the palace economy disappeared, with its attendant skills in the fine arts and writing; most sites were deserted or ...
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... surviving literary evidence for the history of Greece is poetic; the advent of writing in the eighth century changed the position only slowly: it takes generations for the poet to lose his inherited status, and it was not until the ...
... surviving literary evidence for the history of Greece is poetic; the advent of writing in the eighth century changed the position only slowly: it takes generations for the poet to lose his inherited status, and it was not until the ...
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... surviving in local archives were primarily of chronological interest – lists of priests, victors at the games, and annual magistrates. About the end of the fifth century the sophist and antiquarian lecturer Hippias of Elis published the ...
... surviving in local archives were primarily of chronological interest – lists of priests, victors at the games, and annual magistrates. About the end of the fifth century the sophist and antiquarian lecturer Hippias of Elis published the ...
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... surviving law is late seventh century, but the practice of putting up laws in public on stone or wood was common by the period of the Persian Wars. The Mediterranean has been a hunting ground for European archaeologists for a century ...
... surviving law is late seventh century, but the practice of putting up laws in public on stone or wood was common by the period of the Persian Wars. The Mediterranean has been a hunting ground for European archaeologists for a century ...
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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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