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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... exile . The main reason given in Homer for being an exile is that one has killed a man , an action that carries no moral blame , and can indeed serve as an introduction to the best circles . Ajax , in trying to persuade Achilles to ...
... exile . The main reason given in Homer for being an exile is that one has killed a man , an action that carries no moral blame , and can indeed serve as an introduction to the best circles . Ajax , in trying to persuade Achilles to ...
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... exile . Alkaios describes the oath of the conspirators in his appeal for vengeance to the gods of Lesbos : Come , with friendly spirit listen to our prayer , and from these toils and grievous banishment deliver us ; but let the Avengers ...
... exile . Alkaios describes the oath of the conspirators in his appeal for vengeance to the gods of Lesbos : Come , with friendly spirit listen to our prayer , and from these toils and grievous banishment deliver us ; but let the Avengers ...
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... exile on the frontiers ; like Onomakles solitary I settled here among the wolf thickets [ ... ] I dwell , keeping my feet far from troubles , where Lesbian girls with their trailing robes go to and fro being judged for beauty , and all ...
... exile on the frontiers ; like Onomakles solitary I settled here among the wolf thickets [ ... ] I dwell , keeping my feet far from troubles , where Lesbian girls with their trailing robes go to and fro being judged for beauty , and all ...
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Myth History and Archaeology | 13 |
Sources | 21 |
the Aristocracy | 38 |
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