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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... centre of Mycenean power , the Peloponnese , and in certain areas such as Argos and Sparta ruled over a serf population of non - Dorian Greeks . Legend explained that they had arrived only recently ; the sons of the semi - divine hero ...
... centre of Mycenean power , the Peloponnese , and in certain areas such as Argos and Sparta ruled over a serf population of non - Dorian Greeks . Legend explained that they had arrived only recently ; the sons of the semi - divine hero ...
Síða 95
... centre was the result of the unskilled initiative of local merchants , who would have quickly intro- duced a misleading variety into the original invention : this variety will have become fixed in the educational tradition of each area ...
... centre was the result of the unskilled initiative of local merchants , who would have quickly intro- duced a misleading variety into the original invention : this variety will have become fixed in the educational tradition of each area ...
Síða 121
... centre and gripping a leather handgrip at the rim ; the offen- sive weapons were a long heavy stabbing spear about one and a half times the height of the soldier , and a short stabbing sword for emergencies . The poor visibility and ...
... centre and gripping a leather handgrip at the rim ; the offen- sive weapons were a long heavy stabbing spear about one and a half times the height of the soldier , and a short stabbing sword for emergencies . The poor visibility and ...
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Myth History and Archaeology | 13 |
Sources | 21 |
the Aristocracy | 38 |
Höfundarréttur | |
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