Early Greece
2nd ed.
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Author
Publication
1993 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
88,250 words, Guess
Page Count
353 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveearlygreece0000murr_e3b2
- Internet Archiveearlygreece0000murr_a4r2
- ISBN-139780674221321
- ISBN-10067422132X
- LibraryThing212006
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- Goodreads1260401
- Library of Congress Control Number93015040
- OCLC Control Number28709759
- Better World Books9780674221321
- Open LibraryOL1406715M
Classifications
- DDC938
- LCCDF77 .M82 1993
- LCCDF77.M82 1993
Description
"Within the space of three centuries leading up to the great Persian invasion of 480 B.C., Greece was transformed from a simple peasant society into a sophisticated civilization 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 places this remarkable development in the context of Mediterranean civilization. He shows how contact with the East acted as a catalyst to transform art and religion, analyzes the invention of the alphabet and the conceptual changes it brought, describes the expansion of Greece in trade and colonization and investigates the relationship between military technology and political progress in the overthrow of aristocratic governments." [Back cover].
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