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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... late, and have often been reworked and expanded to suit literary or quasi-historical needs: there is a great danger of reconstructing an account of the legends far more complete or systematic than ever actually existed in early Greece ...
... late, and have often been reworked and expanded to suit literary or quasi-historical needs: there is a great danger of reconstructing an account of the legends far more complete or systematic than ever actually existed in early Greece ...
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... late Dark Age and to the earliest religious buildings such as the late Geometric temple of Apollo at Eretria. But it is some two hundred years earlier than these buildings, and is neither a chief's house nor a temple. For the purpose of ...
... late Dark Age and to the earliest religious buildings such as the late Geometric temple of Apollo at Eretria. But it is some two hundred years earlier than these buildings, and is neither a chief's house nor a temple. For the purpose of ...
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... late eighth century: there is nothing implausible in the view that epic poets were also recording their compositions in writing by then, and even using the new skill to help them in composition. Poetry continued to be an important ...
... late eighth century: there is nothing implausible in the view that epic poets were also recording their compositions in writing by then, and even using the new skill to help them in composition. Poetry continued to be an important ...
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... late as the second half of the sixth century could be transformed into a folk - tale , and the account of the Ionian revolt in the early fifth century contains many popular elements . At first sight this is surprising , for Herodotus ...
... late as the second half of the sixth century could be transformed into a folk - tale , and the account of the Ionian revolt in the early fifth century contains many popular elements . At first sight this is surprising , for Herodotus ...
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... late fifth century, whose character can be seen from two examples. The Priestesses of Hera at Argos was based on the records of the famous temple of Hera, which it apparently used to provide a general chronological framework for early ...
... late fifth century, whose character can be seen from two examples. The Priestesses of Hera at Argos was based on the records of the famous temple of Hera, which it apparently used to provide a general chronological framework for early ...
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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