Early Greece: Second Edition

Neuausgabe 1993
ISBN: 978-0-674-22132-1
Verlag: HARVARD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 190 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Murray, Oswyn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Über Autor(innen)

Murray, Oswyn
Oswyn Murray is an emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, University of Oxford, and a leading scholar of the ancient world. He has written widely translated books including <i>Early Greece</i> and <i>The Symposion: Drinking Greek Style</i> and is the coeditor of <i>The Oxford History of the Classical World</i>.