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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... Athens and Sparta , that it has tentatively been identified as a ' traders ' complex ' . The tyrants also exploited ... Athens , began . Corin- thian influence on Athenian pottery is marked ; Periandros was arbitrator in a dispute ...
... Athens remained a centre of occupation throughout the Dark Age , and from about 900 was the most prosperous and advanced community in Greece . Athens created the Geometric style in pottery , and produced its finest examples in the great ...
... Athens by building dockyards in the Piraeus . In 483 there was a major new find of silver at the mines of Laurion . Themistokles against opposition proposed using the money to build an entirely new fleet of triremes , ostensibly for the ...
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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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