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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... equal shares with the base in this rich land of ours ' ( Frag . 34.7-9 ) . The conclusion to be drawn is surely that Aristotle and other ancient sources were right to see the early tyrants as leaders of the demos in general against the ...
... equal the athlete is to the divine in his hour of glory . Even the various cities involved are described in conventional terms . For Pindar it is the individual as aristocratic victor who counts , and the relationship between himself as ...
... equal tribes ; and Aristotle says that his distribution was done by lot ( Constitution of the Athenians 21.4 ) . If his statement is correct , this could have led to variations of size between tribes of up to 42 % larger and 32 ...
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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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