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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... reform that Solon describes in the second part of the passage above , and Aristotle rightly regarded it as the most important of the three great democratic reforms of Solon ( Constitution of the Athenians 9 ) . But beyond this , the ...
... reforms had been concerned with the creation of a lawcode and the proper ordering of a civic society . The basis of the Kleisthenic reforms was the concept of citizenship . Pre- viously it had not seemed necessary to define the members ...
... reforms merely as a series of political manoeuvres to the advantage of himself and the Alkmeonidai . If this was his intention his failure was complete . He himself is not heard of after his reforms : he may have died , or 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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