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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... Phoenician culture was technically more advanced , and literate : Phoenician craftsmen may have worked in Greek cities , on Rhodes , Crete and at Athens ; and in the north Syrian trading posts Phoenicians and Greeks lived together from ...
... Phoenician culture was technically more advanced , and literate : Phoenician craftsmen may have worked in Greek cities , on Rhodes , Crete and at Athens ; and in the north Syrian trading posts Phoenicians and Greeks lived together from ...
Síða 92
... Phoenician writing systems is very close . The Greek letter shapes are adapted from Phoenician ; the order of the two alphabets is essentially the same ; and even the names of most of the Greek letters , which have no significance ...
... Phoenician writing systems is very close . The Greek letter shapes are adapted from Phoenician ; the order of the two alphabets is essentially the same ; and even the names of most of the Greek letters , which have no significance ...
Síða 93
... Phoenician script . For the forms of most of the Greek vowels are derived from Phoenician con- sonantal or semi - consonantal letters for which Greek had no use , and even their position within the Greek alphabet is the same as in ...
... Phoenician script . For the forms of most of the Greek vowels are derived from Phoenician con- sonantal or semi - consonantal letters for which Greek had no use , and even their position within the Greek alphabet is the same as in ...
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Myth History and Archaeology | 13 |
Sources | 21 |
the Aristocracy | 38 |
Höfundarréttur | |
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