Early GreeceHarperCollins UK, 19. des. 2013 - 368 síður Now available in ebook format. Within the space of three centuries, up to the great Persian invasion of 480BC, Greece was transformed from a simple peasant society into a sophisticated civilisation which 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 Western world. The author of this book places this development in the context of Mediterranean civilisation, providing an account of the transformation that launched Western culture. |
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... century, led to the first known Greek work in prose, Anaximandros' book on nature of about 550. Anaximandros ... century, when the accounts of travellers and missionaries from such areas as South America, Turkey and the far east ...
... century, led to the first known Greek work in prose, Anaximandros' book on nature of about 550. Anaximandros ... century, when the accounts of travellers and missionaries from such areas as South America, Turkey and the far east ...
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... century Athens , he finally became a citizen of the Athenian colony of Thurii in south Italy ( founded in 444/3 ) , where he died . The scope of Herodotus ' book is described in its first sentence : This is the account of the ...
... century Athens , he finally became a citizen of the Athenian colony of Thurii in south Italy ( founded in 444/3 ) , where he died . The scope of Herodotus ' book is described in its first sentence : This is the account of the ...
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... century onwards. The historical worth of oral tradition is also related, not so much to the number of steps in the chain of testimonies, as to the purpose behind the recording of the tradition, the milieu in which it was remembered, and ...
... century onwards. The historical worth of oral tradition is also related, not so much to the number of steps in the chain of testimonies, as to the purpose behind the recording of the tradition, the milieu in which it was remembered, and ...
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... century could be transformed into a folk - tale , and the account of the Ionian revolt in the early fifth century contains many popular elements . At first sight this is surprising , for Herodotus was closer to events in the Greek east ...
... century could be transformed into a folk - tale , and the account of the Ionian revolt in the early fifth century contains many popular elements . At first sight this is surprising , for Herodotus was closer to events in the Greek east ...
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... century the sophist and antiquarian lecturer Hippias of Elis published the Olympic victor list, which took chronology back to 776 in a four-year cycle: his system of Olympiad dating became standard for later historians. Another writer ...
... century the sophist and antiquarian lecturer Hippias of Elis published the Olympic victor list, which took chronology back to 776 in a four-year cycle: his system of Olympiad dating became standard for later historians. Another writer ...
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Euboean Society and Trade | |
Colonization | |
Warfare and the New Morality | |
Sparta and the Hoplite State | |
Athens and Social Justice | |
the Economy | |
The Coming of the Persians | |
The Great Persian | |
Plate Section | |
General index | |
About the Author | |
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