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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... coinage . Greek coinage possessed from the start certain characteristics which have had such an influence on western coinages until this century , that they have often though wrongly been thought to be necessary characteristics . It ...
... coinage does not imply the existence of a monetary economy , in the sense that trans- actions are usually carried out with the help of coinage ; for until the invention of token coinage in base metal , the value of even the smallest ...
... coinage ' Historia 7 ( 1958 ) 275-62 , and C. M. Kraay ' Hoards , small change and the origin of coinage ' Journal of Hellenic Studies 84 ( 1964 ) 76–91 . C. M. Kraay CAH IV ch . 7d sums up the debate . On Greek slavery in general ...
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