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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... gods both give and take away . Blindness is a com- mon motif : insight replaces outsight when Apollo blinds his ... gods he is a figure of fun : ' unquenchable laughter filled the blessed gods when they saw Hephaistos bustling through ...
... gods both give and take away . Blindness is a com- mon motif : insight replaces outsight when Apollo blinds his ... gods he is a figure of fun : ' unquenchable laughter filled the blessed gods when they saw Hephaistos bustling through ...
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... gods without any clear unifying principles . What unity Greek religion possessed , came late , as Herodotus claims : The origins of each of the gods , whether all of them had always existed , and their forms , were unknown to us until ...
... gods without any clear unifying principles . What unity Greek religion possessed , came late , as Herodotus claims : The origins of each of the gods , whether all of them had always existed , and their forms , were unknown to us until ...
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... God be with him , and let him go up to Jerusalem in Judah , and rebuild the house of the Lord God of Israel , the God ... gods , I shall give you , if you do not change , proof of my anger when I am wronged . For you have levied tribute ...
... God be with him , and let him go up to Jerusalem in Judah , and rebuild the house of the Lord God of Israel , the God ... gods , I shall give you , if you do not change , proof of my anger when I am wronged . For you have levied tribute ...
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