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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... claim to do so , make a claim without rights . The Aeginetans established a temple of Zeus on their own , the Samians one of Hera , and the Milesians one of Apollo . Naucratis was in the old days the only trading post , and there was no ...
... claiming the leadership of the Peloponnese which had once belonged to Agamemnon , thereby asserting a right to ... claim seems to mark the beginning of Sparta's shift from conquest and enslavement to alliance . One detail from the ...
... claim that Demaratos was illegitimate , and bribed the Delphic oracle to support the claim . Demaratos was deposed in favour of Leotychidas and left for Persia ; the ten richest men on Aegina were handed over to the Athenians as ...
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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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