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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... myth ' , which both in its structure and in many details shows a close correspondence with eastern succession myths . Three of these are known in some detail . The first is the Babylonian creation myth , Enuma Elish , a ritual text ...
... mythology . The second succession myth is the myth of Kumarbi , found in the royal archives of the Hittite capital of Boghazkoy which was destroyed at the end of the thirteenth century BC ; the myth is Hurrian in origin , a people who ...
... myth who has any importance in cult . This reflects the similar function of each myth , which is to create relationships between existing divinities , both internally , and externally to other systems of belief such as the Babylonian ...
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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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