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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... various factors influ- enced the choice of particular sites . The ideal was the same as it had always been a headland such as Homer's Phaeacia or Old Smyrna , easily defensible with good harbours and fertile land nearby : Syracuse with ...
... various factors influ- enced the choice of particular sites . The ideal was the same as it had always been a headland such as Homer's Phaeacia or Old Smyrna , easily defensible with good harbours and fertile land nearby : Syracuse with ...
Síða 149
... various rival female groups in the city : female society was in fact modelled on the male warrior bands , with the same intensity of homosexual emotions , and merely a different social function : the women were organized to worship ...
... various rival female groups in the city : female society was in fact modelled on the male warrior bands , with the same intensity of homosexual emotions , and merely a different social function : the women were organized to worship ...
Síða 239
... various forms of the Romulus legend emphasize the role of the protecting god Mars , and his animal the wolf . But signs of polytheism in Persia may merely reflect the in- fluence of Median religion on the Persians at various periods ...
... various forms of the Romulus legend emphasize the role of the protecting god Mars , and his animal the wolf . But signs of polytheism in Persia may merely reflect the in- fluence of Median religion on the Persians at various periods ...
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