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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... probably of a single ' unknown benefactor of mankind ' ( as the German scholar Wilamowitz said ) . The adaptation from Phoeni- cian is likely to have taken place in a mixed Phoenician - Greek community , or at least in an environment ...
... probably derives directly from Aristotle's lost Constitution of the Spartans : this conclusion sets the limits of our belief and disbelief . Firstly , since Aristotle was intelligent , the text of the rhetra and the commentary must hang ...
... Probably between these two events Solon himself had entered politics , as the warrior poet exhorting the troops fighting Megara for control of the island of Salamis ( Frags . 1-3 ) . This episode shows Solon's debt to Tyrtaios and 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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