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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... Corinth became the most important port and most prosperous city in Greece . The reasons are obvious : Thucydides emphasizes the position of Corinth both for north - south land trade and for east - west sea trade ( 1.13 ) . The trade ...
... Corinth as a city , both before and during the tyranny . The commercial and artistic dominance of Corinth which had begun under the Bacchiads continued under the tyrants . Kyps- elos and his son founded a number of colonies at the mouth ...
... Corinthian innovation ( Olympians 13.30 ) : more specifically the Roman writer Pliny attributes the invention of clay modelling and ornaments to Boutades of Sicyon , who worked in Corinth ( Natural Histories 35.151-3 ) . Certainly the ...
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Myth History and Archaeology | 5 |
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