Early GreeceFontana, 1980 - 319 síður Within the space of three centuries leading up to the great Persian invasion of 480 B.C., Greece was transformed from a simple peasant society into a sophisticated civilization 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 places this remarkable development in the context of Mediterranean civilization. He shows how contact with the East acted as a catalyst to transform art and religion, analyzes the invention of the alphabet and the conceptual changes it brought, describes the expansion of Greece in trade and colonization and investigates the relationship between military technology and political progress in the overthrow of aristocratic governments. |
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... Argos . The old oracle quoted in chapter 5 shows that the Argives succeeded the Euboeans as the leading warriors in Greece : the fact that the hoplite double - grip shield was called ' Argive ' , and the war- rior burial of about 725 ...
... Argos . The old oracle quoted in chapter 5 shows that the Argives succeeded the Euboeans as the leading warriors in Greece : the fact that the hoplite double - grip shield was called ' Argive ' , and the war- rior burial of about 725 ...
Síða 147
... Argos another . Both caused trouble : the helots were subsumed in the larger group of Messenians conquered by Sparta in the seventh century , and took part in their success- ive revolts ; while the Argive slaves seized control of Argos ...
... Argos another . Both caused trouble : the helots were subsumed in the larger group of Messenians conquered by Sparta in the seventh century , and took part in their success- ive revolts ; while the Argive slaves seized control of Argos ...
Síða 251
... Argos . The campaign is dated by a unique double oracle from Delphi , which balances an ambiguous reply on the prospects of the war against Argos with an irrelevant but clear prophecy of the fate of Miletus ( Herodotus 6.77 and 18 ) ...
... Argos . The campaign is dated by a unique double oracle from Delphi , which balances an ambiguous reply on the prospects of the war against Argos with an irrelevant but clear prophecy of the fate of Miletus ( Herodotus 6.77 and 18 ) ...
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Myth History and Archaeology | 13 |
Sources | 21 |
the Aristocracy | 38 |
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