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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Oswyn Murray. I Myth , History and Archaeology UNTIL A CENTURY AGO historians accepted the distinction first made in a slightly different form by the ... from archaeology, in terms of its material Myth, History and Archaeology.
Oswyn Murray. I Myth , History and Archaeology UNTIL A CENTURY AGO historians accepted the distinction first made in a slightly different form by the ... from archaeology, in terms of its material Myth, History and Archaeology.
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Oswyn Murray. reconstructed almost entirely from archaeology, in terms of its material remains. For if Greek myths have been vindicated as containing a historical basis by the discoveries of archaeology, they still cannot be used to ...
Oswyn Murray. reconstructed almost entirely from archaeology, in terms of its material remains. For if Greek myths have been vindicated as containing a historical basis by the discoveries of archaeology, they still cannot be used to ...
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Oswyn Murray. The result of the collapse of Mycenean culture was a dark age, lasting for some three hundred years ... from the world of the Homeric heroes to his own day. Records of the past such as genealogies reached back only as ...
Oswyn Murray. The result of the collapse of Mycenean culture was a dark age, lasting for some three hundred years ... from the world of the Homeric heroes to his own day. Records of the past such as genealogies reached back only as ...
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... from southern Asia Minor a major new technological advance, iron smelting; from about 1050 iron began to replace bronze as the metal in everyday use. About ... the funeral pyre. The burial rites recall those of Patroklos in Iliad 23,
... from southern Asia Minor a major new technological advance, iron smelting; from about 1050 iron began to replace bronze as the metal in everyday use. About ... the funeral pyre. The burial rites recall those of Patroklos in Iliad 23,
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... the accounts of Viking burials in south Russia two thousand years later, as described by Arab observers; in the ... from the Mycenean period not found elsewhere. But it shows that, if it were ever possible to excavate the Lefkandi ...
... the accounts of Viking burials in south Russia two thousand years later, as described by Arab observers; in the ... from the Mycenean period not found elsewhere. But it shows that, if it were ever possible to excavate the Lefkandi ...
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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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