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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... interest in recording the presence of Greeks from a particular area in a particular place . Two cities , however , successively captured a wider market for their pottery : it is these styles , found all over the Mediterranean , which ...
... interests of the aristocracy , the way in which these warrior bands might benefit the community is clear . Odysseus ... interest in the maintenance of its aristocracy and their fighting bands ; the warrior might even be given a special ...
... interest and capital outstanding ; such a variety of opinions serves merely to show that Solon in fact never clearly mentioned the subject of the abolition of debts . These speculations , along with many by modern scholars , have been ...
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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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