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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... described by Homer are , and whether the overall nature of the society resembles that of other known primitive societies . Finally there is a clear line of development from the institutions described in Homer to those which existed in ...
... described as a scene on the shield of Achilles : But the people were gathered in assembly . There a dispute had arisen and two men were quarrelling over the price of a dead man . One claimed to pay the full amount , addressing the ...
... described in F. Chamoux Cyrène sous la monarchie des Battiades ( Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome 1953 ) . VIII WARFARE AND THE NEW MORALITY The development of hoplite armour is the subject of A. M. Snodgrass Early Greek Armour ...
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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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