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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... possessed their own histories . Neither written documents nor the oral traditions recorded by Herodotus reach back beyond about 650 , to the earliest founda- tions ; the individual stories of these are either lost or un- reliable . But ...
... possessed their own histories . Neither written documents nor the oral traditions recorded by Herodotus reach back beyond about 650 , to the earliest founda- tions ; the individual stories of these are either lost or un- reliable . But ...
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... possessed equal privileges , described by Herodotus ( 6.56-60 ) : each was a priest of Zeus ; both were permanent military leaders , originally with the right of declar- ing war ; they could campaign either together or separately . Each ...
... possessed equal privileges , described by Herodotus ( 6.56-60 ) : each was a priest of Zeus ; both were permanent military leaders , originally with the right of declar- ing war ; they could campaign either together or separately . Each ...
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... possessed a complex hierarchy of initiations and various dietary tabus ; many of these were related to the need to free the soul from the body , and purify it for the cycle of reincarnations which it must undergo . Some of Pythagoras ...
... possessed a complex hierarchy of initiations and various dietary tabus ; many of these were related to the need to free the soul from the body , and purify it for the cycle of reincarnations which it must undergo . Some of Pythagoras ...
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