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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... known Greek written book or books in prose , on nature , geography and astronomy , and the creator of the earliest Greek maps of the world and the heavens . His physical theory clearly seeks to avoid difficulties recognized in the ...
... known ; in that year a further 4463 were found in the Kerameikos excavations : these have not yet been properly published , but preliminary information shows that they alter significantly the earlier known distribution of votes ...
... known or thought to have been forged – for instance the obviously false ' decree of Miltiades ' , also used by Aischines ? - On the issue of authenticity no agreement has been or ever will be reached . The decree is clearly intended 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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