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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... least by the Mycenean period the language of the Linear B tablets was recognizably Greek . In classical times Greek was split into various dialects , more or less closely interrelated . The Doric dialect was spoken in the southern and ...
... least as far as the Lelantine War ; Lygdamis of Naxos helped both Peisistratos of Athens and Polykrates of Samos to gain power . These two last examples show the instability of contemporary politics : though Peisistra- tos had some ...
... least 348 , when the orator Aischines used it ( Demosthenes 19.303 : this is the earliest surviving reference to it ) . The obvious question arises , was it a forgery made in the interests of the call to political unity in the fourth ...
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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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