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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... seventh century and Mimnermos of Smyrna about 600 encouraged their fellow citizens in struggles against the nomadic Cimmerian invaders from south Russia and the advancing power of Lydia . Tyrtaios towards the end of the seventh century ...
... seventh century and Mimnermos of Smyrna about 600 encouraged their fellow citizens in struggles against the nomadic Cimmerian invaders from south Russia and the advancing power of Lydia . Tyrtaios towards the end of the seventh century ...
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... seventh century on- wards , with the Cimmerian invasion and the attacks of Lydia , drove the Ionian Greeks into their coastal cities . Even then it seems that in some areas fortified farmsteads preserved a little of the old style of ...
... seventh century on- wards , with the Cimmerian invasion and the attacks of Lydia , drove the Ionian Greeks into their coastal cities . Even then it seems that in some areas fortified farmsteads preserved a little of the old style of ...
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... seventh century a series of usurpers began to seize autocratic power in the more advanced cities , establishing ... century , from the mid seventh century to the 550s ; and there were numerous lesser tyrannies . In the islands the ...
... seventh century a series of usurpers began to seize autocratic power in the more advanced cities , establishing ... century , from the mid seventh century to the 550s ; and there were numerous lesser tyrannies . In the islands the ...
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Myth History and Archaeology | 13 |
Sources | 21 |
the Aristocracy | 38 |
Höfundarréttur | |
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