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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Síða 93
... shows the same meticulous study of the Phoenician script . For the forms of most of the Greek vowels are derived ... show how the vowels were arrived at by ' creative misunderstanding ' of their prototypes : the aspirate he in ...
... shows the same meticulous study of the Phoenician script . For the forms of most of the Greek vowels are derived ... show how the vowels were arrived at by ' creative misunderstanding ' of their prototypes : the aspirate he in ...
Síða 103
... shows that it was already well established . But the fighting against ' the Thracian dogs ' ( Frag . 93a ) was continuous in Thasos , three times lousy city ' ( Frag . 228 ) : ' I weep for the ills of Thasos , not the Magnesians ...
... shows that it was already well established . But the fighting against ' the Thracian dogs ' ( Frag . 93a ) was continuous in Thasos , three times lousy city ' ( Frag . 228 ) : ' I weep for the ills of Thasos , not the Magnesians ...
Síða 125
... shows a series of overlapping hoplite duels between single opposed warriors , and one between pairs . This is still of course ambiguous , though the theme appears to be the defeat of the left - hand army by the right ; the Macmillan ...
... shows a series of overlapping hoplite duels between single opposed warriors , and one between pairs . This is still of course ambiguous , though the theme appears to be the defeat of the left - hand army by the right ; the Macmillan ...
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Myth History and Archaeology | 13 |
Sources | 21 |
the Aristocracy | 38 |
Höfundarréttur | |
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