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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... known that the breaking of the wave is the product of forces far out in the ocean of time . My thanks are due to those who have read and commented on different chapters of the manuscript : Antony Andrewes , Paul Cartledge , John Davies ...
... known that the breaking of the wave is the product of forces far out in the ocean of time . My thanks are due to those who have read and commented on different chapters of the manuscript : Antony Andrewes , Paul Cartledge , John Davies ...
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... known as Linear B had been developed from the earlier still undeciphered Minoan Linear A ; but the language it was used to record was shown by Ventris to be Greek , of a form closest to the most archaic elements in Greek previously known ...
... known as Linear B had been developed from the earlier still undeciphered Minoan Linear A ; but the language it was used to record was shown by Ventris to be Greek , of a form closest to the most archaic elements in Greek previously known ...
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... known centres of culture in the third millennium ; the extent to which the language spoken by the newcomers was transformed by contact with this earlier language is uncertain . But at least by the Mycenean period the language of the ...
... known centres of culture in the third millennium ; the extent to which the language spoken by the newcomers was transformed by contact with this earlier language is uncertain . But at least by the Mycenean period the language of the ...
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... created. Other ages have known the same phenomenon, a people without culture leaving no sign of their coming but desolation, and a world that has to be created anew. II Sources SOCIETIES without writing are dependent on the human.
... created. Other ages have known the same phenomenon, a people without culture leaving no sign of their coming but desolation, and a world that has to be created anew. II Sources SOCIETIES without writing are dependent on the human.
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... known to have possessed a native epic tradition. Certainly Hesiod saw himself as a Homeric aoidos, and even describes how the only time he ever sailed across the sea was the few yards to Chalcis in Euboea, to take part in a contest at ...
... known to have possessed a native epic tradition. Certainly Hesiod saw himself as a Homeric aoidos, and even describes how the only time he ever sailed across the sea was the few yards to Chalcis in Euboea, to take part in a contest at ...
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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