Early GreeceHarvard University Press, 1993 - 353 síður Within the space of three centuries leading up to the great Persian invasion of 480 BC, Greece was transformed from a simple peasant society into a sophisticated civilization that 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 the Western world. Oswyn Murray places this remarkable development in the context of Mediterranean civilization. He shows how contact with the East catalyzed the transformation of art and religion, analyzes the invention of the alphabet and the conceptual changes it brought, describes the expansions 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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Preface to First Edition 1980 1 | 1 |
Preface to Second Edition 1993 | 2 |
Myth History and Archaeology | 5 |
Sources | 16 |
the Aristocracy | 35 |
the Community | 55 |
Euboean Society and Trade | 69 |
The Orientalizing Period | 81 |
Athens and Social Justice | 181 |
the Aristocracy | 201 |
the Economy | 220 |
The Coming of the Persians | 246 |
Sparta and Athens | 262 |
The Great Persian War | 288 |
Maps | 302 |
Date chart | 309 |
Colonization | 102 |
Warfare and the New Morality | 124 |
Tyranny | 137 |
Sparta and the Hoplite State | 159 |
Primary sources | 315 |
Further reading | 319 |
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