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Oswyn Murray is a Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Balliol College, Oxford and the editor of the ‘Fontana History of the Ancient World’ series. He is the author of ‘Early Greece’ in that series.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Second Printing. Fontana Paperback, 1983, 2nd impression, very good. Seller Inventory # GD01311
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Book Description Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 320pp, the paper browning with age, illustrated softback covers. B + w illustrations. Internally clean and tight. A classic account of how contact with the East acted to transform art and religion in Ancient Greece. Seller Inventory # 15727
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 319 pages. Cover wornWithin the space of three centuries lead ing up to the great Persian invasion of 480 B.C., Greece was tran sformed from a simple peasant society into a sophisticated civili zation which dominated the shores of the Mediterranean from Spain to Syria and from the Crimea to Egypt -- a culture whose achieve ments 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 civil ization. He shows how contact with the East acted as a catalyst t o transform art and religion, analyzes the invention of the alpha bet and the conceptual changes it brought, describes the expansio n of Greece in trade and colonization and investigates the relati onship between military technology and political progress in the overthrow of aristocratic governments. Seller Inventory # 3159b
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 319 pages. Cover worn. Text tannedWithin the space of three c enturies leading up to the great Persian invasion of 480 B.C., Gr eece was transformed from a simple peasant society into a sophist icated civilization which dominated the shores of the Mediterrane an 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 a uthor places this remarkable development in the context of Medite rranean 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 investigat es the relationship between military technology and political pro gress in the overthrow of aristocratic governments. Seller Inventory # 2451o