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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... epic , the principles of Homeric oral composition are now much better understood . Apart from more complex metrical formulae , names and nouns have different adjectives attached to them , whose function is not primarily to add to the ...
... epic , the principles of Homeric oral composition are now much better understood . Apart from more complex metrical formulae , names and nouns have different adjectives attached to them , whose function is not primarily to add to the ...
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... epic tradition in the same sense as Homer : his call to poetry was like the call of a contemporary Old Testament prophet . His father , un- successful as a sea trader , had emigrated from the town of Cyme in Aeolic Asia Minor to ...
... epic tradition in the same sense as Homer : his call to poetry was like the call of a contemporary Old Testament prophet . His father , un- successful as a sea trader , had emigrated from the town of Cyme in Aeolic Asia Minor to ...
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... epic it is however obvious that inferences drawn from Hesiod are more certain than inferences from heroic epic . The subject matter of Homeric epic is the activities of the great , and it is their social environment which is portrayed ...
... epic it is however obvious that inferences drawn from Hesiod are more certain than inferences from heroic epic . The subject matter of Homeric epic is the activities of the great , and it is their social environment which is portrayed ...
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Introduction to the Fontana History of the Ancient World | 6 |
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