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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... early culture was deeply influenced by contact with the Greeks . The trade route which can be traced from the near east to Etruria through Al Mina and Pithecusae was in the ... early friendships between cities can be used to 76 EARLY GREECE.
... early Corinth . But it was there under the tyranny that Greek monumental architecture emerged with the creation of the Doric temple . The major innovations are connected with the use of clay in building and decoration . The invention of ...
... early coinage . Since Greek coinage appears fully formed from the start , without the initial stages of the Lydian , it must be derivative . In Greek tradition the earliest Greek state held to have coinage was Aegina ( now believed to ...
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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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