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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... gives geras to the nobles ( Odyssey 7.150 ) ; in Odysseus ' Cretan story it was the demos who forced him to sail to ... give dikai carry the skēptron in their hands , those who guard the themistes for Zeus ' ( Iliad 1.238f ) ; 58 EARLY ...
... give a freedom of gesture and expression which encourages the portrayal of emotion and narrative . Mythology is ... gives a clue to the source of the sudden freedom of line and the importance of outline . But the influence of fabrics ...
... give it to you ; there are many acorn - eating men in Arcadia who will keep you out . But I do not grudge you : I will give you Tegea to dance with stamping feet , and her fair plain to measure out with the line . ( Herodotus 1.66 ) The ...
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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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