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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... oracle addressed to his father runs : Eetion , no one honours you though you are most honoured . Labda is with child : she will beget a millstone , and it will fall on the monarchic men , and bring judgement on Corinth . ( Herodotus ...
... oracle addressed to his father runs : Eetion , no one honours you though you are most honoured . Labda is with child : she will beget a millstone , and it will fall on the monarchic men , and bring judgement on Corinth . ( Herodotus ...
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... oracle of course favoured those who could dedicate mag- nificent offerings , and was therefore an early supporter of tyrants and , by extension , of their followers the hoplites . When tyrannies fell , it was easy to emphasize the ...
... oracle of course favoured those who could dedicate mag- nificent offerings , and was therefore an early supporter of tyrants and , by extension , of their followers the hoplites . When tyrannies fell , it was easy to emphasize the ...
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... oracle to the Spartans to expel the Peisistratids from Athens : direct bribery of the priestess was even alleged ( Herodotus 5.62ff ) . The story reveals how the very success of Delphi led to her decline : her assistance became too ...
... oracle to the Spartans to expel the Peisistratids from Athens : direct bribery of the priestess was even alleged ( Herodotus 5.62ff ) . The story reveals how the very success of Delphi led to her decline : her assistance became too ...
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Myth History and Archaeology | 13 |
Sources | 21 |
the Aristocracy | 38 |
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