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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... foundation must have been influenced by special considerations as much as by general trends . Nevertheless this was a movement in which ideas and even enterprises were shared ; and recent archaeological work , especially in south Italy ...
... foundation of Eretria 800+ Foundation of trading post at Al Mina * 776 First Olympic Games 775 Foundation of trading post at Pithecusae 753 Traditional date of foundation of Rome 750-700 Invention and diffusion of Greek alphabet 744-612 ...
... Foundation of Cyrene 670 onwards : Decline of Assyria 664 Foundation of Saite dynasty in Egypt under Psammetichus I ( 664-610 ) 650 Rise of Media under Phraates ( 650-625 ) 626 Independence of Babylon under Nabopolassar 612-09 Fall of ...
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Myth History and Archaeology | 5 |
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