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. |
From inside the book
Niðurstöður 1 - 3 af 42
Síða 64
... nature an animal of the polis ' ( Politics 1.1253a ) ; the central theme of Greek history is the development of the city - state to become the dominant form of government in the Greek- speaking world for roughly a thousand years ...
... nature an animal of the polis ' ( Politics 1.1253a ) ; the central theme of Greek history is the development of the city - state to become the dominant form of government in the Greek- speaking world for roughly a thousand years ...
Síða 82
... nature of the evidence results in a curiously oblique picture . Pottery was not imported into Greece , for the Greeks were already capable of producing vessels superior to those of the east ; the primary imported objects available to ...
... nature of the evidence results in a curiously oblique picture . Pottery was not imported into Greece , for the Greeks were already capable of producing vessels superior to those of the east ; the primary imported objects available to ...
Síða 235
... nature , ge- ography and astronomy , and the creator of the earliest Greek maps of the world and the heavens . His physical theory clearly seeks to avoid difficulties recognized in the theory of Thales . It operated with the conception ...
... nature , ge- ography and astronomy , and the creator of the earliest Greek maps of the world and the heavens . His physical theory clearly seeks to avoid difficulties recognized in the theory of Thales . It operated with the conception ...
Efni
Introduction to the Fontana History of the Ancient World | 6 |
Myth History and Archaeology | 13 |
2 | 21 |
Höfundarréttur | |
16 aðrir hlutar ekki sýndir
Aðrar útgáfur - View all
Common terms and phrases
Aegina Al Mina Alkaios ancient Apollo archaeological archaic Archilochos Argos aristocratic Aristotle Asia Minor Athenian Athens Attica battle bronze Chalcis claim coinage colonies Corcyra Corinth Corinthian culture Cyrene Cyrus Darius Dark Age Delphi Dorian earliest early Greek eastern economic Egypt Egyptian eighth century epic Eretria Etruscan Euboea evidence excavations exile fact fighting Frag Fragment gods Greece Herodotus heroes Hesiod Homer honour hoplite Iliad important influence inscription Ionian king Kleisthenes Kleomenes Kypselos land later literacy Lykourgos mainland Megara Miletus military Mycenean myth Naucratis Odyssey oracle oral original Oxford U.P. Peisistratos Peloponnese perhaps period Persian Persian Wars Phoenician poems poet poetry political pottery probably reforms ritual settlement seventh century shield ships shows shrine sixth century slaves social society Solon Spartan style surviving temple Themistokles Theogony Thucydides tion trade tradition tribes tyranny tyrant Tyrtaios vase warrior wealth Zeus