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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... Corcyra founded a few subsidiary colonies at its base , but it was not until north Etruscan hostility forced the Greeks to find a new way to the northern European trade- routes through the Po valley , that the city of Spina was founded ...
... Corcyra founded a few subsidiary colonies at its base , but it was not until north Etruscan hostility forced the Greeks to find a new way to the northern European trade- routes through the Po valley , that the city of Spina was founded ...
Síða 147
... Corcyra , he captured the island , and sent 300 Corcyrean noble youths to be castrated in the service of his friend Alyattes of Lydia ; they were rescued by the Samians on the way ( Herodotus 5.92 ; 3.48ff ) . This episode repays ...
... Corcyra , he captured the island , and sent 300 Corcyrean noble youths to be castrated in the service of his friend Alyattes of Lydia ; they were rescued by the Samians on the way ( Herodotus 5.92 ; 3.48ff ) . This episode repays ...
Síða 270
... Corcyra and Crete . They also agreed to give the com- mand of the Greek forces to Sparta both on land and at sea ; this reveals the extent to which the Peloponnesian League was the basis of the Greek resistance , and also the ...
... Corcyra and Crete . They also agreed to give the com- mand of the Greek forces to Sparta both on land and at sea ; this reveals the extent to which the Peloponnesian League was the basis of the Greek resistance , and also the ...
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Myth History and Archaeology | 13 |
Sources | 21 |
the Aristocracy | 38 |
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