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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... ( Iliad 9.632f ) , not to any wider group ; and when Odysseus kills the suitors , the father of one takes up the blood - feud with the words ' it brings great shame for future men to hear if we do not take vengeance for the deaths of our ...
... ( Iliad 9.632f ) , not to any wider group ; and when Odysseus kills the suitors , the father of one takes up the blood - feud with the words ' it brings great shame for future men to hear if we do not take vengeance for the deaths of our ...
Síða 60
... ( Iliad 11.807f ) ; the rituals and procedures essential for the orderly conduct of mass meetings were well established , and show remarkable similarities with the highly complex rituals sur rounding the only later assemblies whose ...
... ( Iliad 11.807f ) ; the rituals and procedures essential for the orderly conduct of mass meetings were well established , and show remarkable similarities with the highly complex rituals sur rounding the only later assemblies whose ...
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... Iliad : in the first a wasps ' nest creates ' a com- mon evil for many ' ( 16.262 ) , and in the second Paris ' abduction of Helen is described as ' a great woe for your father and for the city and all the people ' ( 3.50 ) . The ...
... Iliad : in the first a wasps ' nest creates ' a com- mon evil for many ' ( 16.262 ) , and in the second Paris ' abduction of Helen is described as ' a great woe for your father and for the city and all the people ' ( 3.50 ) . The ...
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Myth History and Archaeology | 13 |
Sources | 21 |
the Aristocracy | 38 |
Höfundarréttur | |
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