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. |
From inside the book
Niðurstöður 1 - 3 af 33
... temple . The major innovations are connected with the use of clay in building and decoration . The invention of clay roofing tiles ( called Corinthian ) and the use of side colonnades gave the typical low - pitched roof supported by ...
... temple to the Dioscuri may in fact be the same as Herodotus ' temple of Zeus , which was not found . There was also an important early sixth century temple of Aphrodite in the south quarter , which seems from the evidence to have been ...
... Temple of Artemis at Corcyra : first Greek stone temple 572 Marriage contest of Kleisthenes of Sicyon About 570 : Birth of Anakreon of Teos 569-525 Amasis king of Egypt * 566 Reorganization of Panathenaic festival 561 Peisistratos ...
Efni
Preface to First Edition 1980 12 | 1 |
Preface to Second Edition 1993 | 2 |
Myth History and Archaeology | 5 |
Höfundarréttur | |
20 aðrir hlutar ekki sýndir