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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... battle for this plain in which each side put forward 300 picked men ; the Battle of the Champions ended with two Argives and one Spartan alive . Since the Argives had left the Spartan in control of the field , both sides claimed victory ...
... battle ( 8.14 ) ; they had apparently been guarding the narrows of Euboea against a Persian encirclement . On the other hand if the decree is in this respect a forgery , its divergence from Herodotus is more serious , for a forger ...
... ( battle ) 259 land tenure Laurion 287 110f , 114 , 164 law 58-62 , 197–9 ; see dikē Lefkandi ( Euboea ) 12-5 , 76 Lelantine War 76-80 , 105 , 131 , 145 Leonidas 268 , 295 Leontini 114 Leotychidas 268 Lesbos 20 ( see Mytilene ) Lévi ...
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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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