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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... Mycenean culture was uncertain , until in 1952 a young English architect , Michael Ventris , deciphered the tablets from the destruction levels at Pylos on the mainland and at Mycenean Knossos . The syllabic script known as Linear B had ...
... Mycenean culture was uncertain , until in 1952 a young English architect , Michael Ventris , deciphered the tablets from the destruction levels at Pylos on the mainland and at Mycenean Knossos . The syllabic script known as Linear B had ...
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... Mycenean and classical times , it is reasonable to see Arcado - Cypriot as evidence for the survival of Mycenean Greek enclaves in remote and inaccessible areas . It has usually also been held that the relation between Doric and north ...
... Mycenean and classical times , it is reasonable to see Arcado - Cypriot as evidence for the survival of Mycenean Greek enclaves in remote and inaccessible areas . It has usually also been held that the relation between Doric and north ...
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... Mycenean inhumation to the later Dark Age and onwards , though the actual funerary rites owe much to poetic invention , which in turn affected contemporary prac- tices . The earliest and most striking instances have been found at ...
... Mycenean inhumation to the later Dark Age and onwards , though the actual funerary rites owe much to poetic invention , which in turn affected contemporary prac- tices . The earliest and most striking instances have been found at ...
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