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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... poet to lose his inherited status , and it was not until the middle of the sixth century that prose literature began to develop . The aoidos or singer of epic was a professional oral poet , composing and reciting from a stock of ...
... poet to lose his inherited status , and it was not until the middle of the sixth century that prose literature began to develop . The aoidos or singer of epic was a professional oral poet , composing and reciting from a stock of ...
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... poet is most likely . The second epic poet of Greece is a more distinct personality . Hesiod composed around 700 , and may well be a contemporary or within a generation of Homer ; he is the first poet to name himself . At the start of ...
... poet is most likely . The second epic poet of Greece is a more distinct personality . Hesiod composed around 700 , and may well be a contemporary or within a generation of Homer ; he is the first poet to name himself . At the start of ...
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... poet Simonides . It was Simonides , born in 556 , who was apparently the first , both to write victory odes ( epinikia ) for the games and to establish the profession of choral poet working for hire ( p . 279 ) ; it is this professional ...
... poet Simonides . It was Simonides , born in 556 , who was apparently the first , both to write victory odes ( epinikia ) for the games and to establish the profession of choral poet working for hire ( p . 279 ) ; it is this professional ...
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Myth History and Archaeology | 13 |
Sources | 21 |
the Aristocracy | 38 |
Höfundarréttur | |
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