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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... honour justice and uprightness in men : when fierce and hostile men go against a foreign land and Zeus gives them booty , and they have filled their ships and departed for home , even in the hearts of these men falls mighty fear of ...
... honour justice and uprightness in men : when fierce and hostile men go against a foreign land and Zeus gives them booty , and they have filled their ships and departed for home , even in the hearts of these men falls mighty fear of ...
Síða 55
... honour ( timē ) given by others to a man ; and timē itself had a physical expression in the gerus or share of booty due to him . It was also an individualistic ethic : a man's timē was his own concern , even the gods cared little for ...
... honour ( timē ) given by others to a man ; and timē itself had a physical expression in the gerus or share of booty due to him . It was also an individualistic ethic : a man's timē was his own concern , even the gods cared little for ...
Síða 209
... honour you without reason , for you put up with their evil so easily ; it would be right if only the good had wealth , and poverty were the com- panion of base men . ( 523-6 ) The result is the corruption of the aristocracy as the ...
... honour you without reason , for you put up with their evil so easily ; it would be right if only the good had wealth , and poverty were the com- panion of base men . ( 523-6 ) The result is the corruption of the aristocracy as the ...
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