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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... Persian attitude helped to persuade Delphi that Apollo stood to gain much from a Persian conquest ; but there was no simple connection between his priesthood and the political elite in any city . As elsewhere the Persians installed or ...
... Persian attack of 490. From the Persian side , there is something to be said for Robert Graves ' analysis : Truth - loving Persians do not dwell upon the trivial skirmish fought near Marathon . ( The Persian Version ) The battle was an ...
... Persian viewpoint can be seen in Aeschylus ' play The Persians , the earliest surviving Greek tragedy , performed in ... Persian court : the Greek victory is seen as a Persian tragedy , and the play is an attempt to understand 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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