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. |
From inside the book
Niðurstöður 1 - 3 af 50
... Ancient City was translated in 1874 , and is available in various reprints ; see also A. Momigliano ' The Ancient City of Fustel de Coulanges ' Essays in Ancient and Modern Historiography ( Blackwell 1977 ) 325-43 . A similar but less ...
... ancient Greeks ' Essays on Religion and the Ancient World ( Oxford U.P. 1972 ) 534-50 ; C. R. Whittaker " The Delphic oracle : belief and behavior in ancient Greece - and Africa ' Harvard Theological Review 58 ( 1965 ) 21-47 . For the ...
... ancient battles ' Journal of Hellenic Studies 84 ( 1964 ) 119-39 ; N. G. L. Hammond " The campaign and the battle of Marathon ' Studies in Greek History ( Oxford U.P. 1973 ) 170–250 . The relation between Marathon and the Parthenon ...
Efni
Preface to First Edition 1980 12 | 1 |
Preface to Second Edition 1993 | 2 |
Myth History and Archaeology | 5 |
Höfundarréttur | |
20 aðrir hlutar ekki sýndir