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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... Asia Minor . Further north in Asia Minor , the Lesbian ( Aeolic ) dialect is related to those spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia , though the language of these two areas is also connected to the north - western dialects spoken in Aetolia ...
... Asia Minor . Further north in Asia Minor , the Lesbian ( Aeolic ) dialect is related to those spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia , though the language of these two areas is also connected to the north - western dialects spoken in Aetolia ...
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... Asia Minor can be dated on the evidence of a number of excavated sites . From the archaeological evidence the Ionian migration and the importance of Athens in it are confirmed . But the earlier period is very obscure . The change in ...
... Asia Minor can be dated on the evidence of a number of excavated sites . From the archaeological evidence the Ionian migration and the importance of Athens in it are confirmed . But the earlier period is very obscure . The change in ...
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... Asia Minor ; Alk- man's poetry certainly reflects a society of high culture open to eastern influences and fascinated by the exotic ; he was interested in cosmogony and in stories from the distant Black Sea , and delights in foreign ...
... Asia Minor ; Alk- man's poetry certainly reflects a society of high culture open to eastern influences and fascinated by the exotic ; he was interested in cosmogony and in stories from the distant Black Sea , and delights in foreign ...
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Myth History and Archaeology | 13 |
Sources | 21 |
the Aristocracy | 38 |
Höfundarréttur | |
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