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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... Homer , excavated at Troy , at Mycenae , and at other sites in mainland Greece , in order to prove the reality of Homer's Trojan War and the world of the Greek heroes . He discovered a great bronze age palace culture , centred on ...
... Homer , excavated at Troy , at Mycenae , and at other sites in mainland Greece , in order to prove the reality of Homer's Trojan War and the world of the Greek heroes . He discovered a great bronze age palace culture , centred on ...
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... Homer to those which existed in later Greece . The differences in the way Homer and Hesiod portray society are not then to be explained chronologically : Homer's society is of course idealized , and reaches back in time through the ...
... Homer to those which existed in later Greece . The differences in the way Homer and Hesiod portray society are not then to be explained chronologically : Homer's society is of course idealized , and reaches back in time through the ...
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... Homer and Hesiod show that the polis already existed in all essential aspects by the end of the Dark Age . Homer takes the same view of human nature as Aristotle : the Cyclopes are utterly uncivilized , not only because they ignore the ...
... Homer and Hesiod show that the polis already existed in all essential aspects by the end of the Dark Age . Homer takes the same view of human nature as Aristotle : the Cyclopes are utterly uncivilized , not only because they ignore the ...
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Myth History and Archaeology | 13 |
Sources | 21 |
the Aristocracy | 38 |
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