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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Síða 88
... Hesiod's theogonic system is clear ; but the date at which this influence entered Greek myth is controversial , and concerns ultimately the extent to which Hesiod can be seen as an original and independent thinker . A number of scholars ...
... Hesiod's theogonic system is clear ; but the date at which this influence entered Greek myth is controversial , and concerns ultimately the extent to which Hesiod can be seen as an original and independent thinker . A number of scholars ...
Síða 89
... Hesiod , as an immi- grant from an area of epic tradition , was ideally suited to hear the call of the Muses , and undertake the task of relating the old disorder of the Greek gods to the newly discovered divine systems of the east ...
... Hesiod , as an immi- grant from an area of epic tradition , was ideally suited to hear the call of the Muses , and undertake the task of relating the old disorder of the Greek gods to the newly discovered divine systems of the east ...
Síða 90
... Hesiod's second myth describes how five races of men have inhabited the earth , the ages of gold , silver , bronze , heroes , and iron . The general conception is of deterioration until the pres- ent age of iron , though not all ...
... Hesiod's second myth describes how five races of men have inhabited the earth , the ages of gold , silver , bronze , heroes , and iron . The general conception is of deterioration until the pres- ent age of iron , though not all ...
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Myth History and Archaeology | 13 |
Sources | 21 |
the Aristocracy | 38 |
Höfundarréttur | |
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