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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... Athenian interest in Black Sea corn . During the war Pittakos killed the Athenian leader in single combat , and Alkaios threw away his shield ( Herodotus 5.94 ; Strabo 599 ) : Alkaios is safe , his weapons of war are not . The Athenians ...
... Athenian tradition it was Solon who was the founder of the Athenian state . Much of Solon's poetry survives , quoted in later sources ; our evidence for his work is therefore better than for any other event of early Greek history . If ...
... Athenian military enterprises did not begin until the late seventh century . The earliest evidence is Alkaios ' war over the Athenian colony at Sigeum on the Black Sea route about 610 ( p . 156 ) ; in the period 595-586 Athenian troops ...
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Preface to First Edition 1980 12 | 1 |
Preface to Second Edition 1993 | 2 |
Myth History and Archaeology | 5 |
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