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Murray traces the emergence of urbanisation and social and political structures from the Mycenean and legendary origins of Greece through to the Persian Wars.
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Together these five compact volumes Ý"Early Greece" by Oswyn Murray, "Democracy and Classical Greece" by J. K. Davies, "The Hellenistic World" by F. W. Walbank, "The Roman Republic" by Michael Crawford, "The Later Roman Empire" by Averil Cameron, all available from Harvard¨ cover much of the history of the classical world, and do so with both ease and authority...For this new series they have been revised or otherwise brought up to date. -- Washington Post Book World
authority...For this new series they have been revised or otherwise brought up to date.
each particular age. Murray has fulfilled both tasks admirably...[He] sets the story of Greece in a broad perspective geographically and intellectually.
Oswyn Murray's Early Greece is a volume which has the dual purpose of providing an up-to-date account of major periods and of presenting the methodology employed by scholars of each particular age. Murray has fulfilled both tasks admirably...[He] sets the story of Greece in a broad perspective geographically and intellectually.
Together these five compact volumes [ Early Greece by Oswyn Murray, Democracy and Classical Greece by J. K. Davies, The Hellenistic World by F. W. Walbank, The Roman Republic by Michael Crawford, The Later Roman Empire by Averil Cameron, all available from Harvard] cover much of the history of the classical world, and do so with both ease and authority...For this new series they have been revised or otherwise brought up to date.
Together these five compact volumes ["Early Greece" by Oswyn Murray, "Democracy and Classical Greece" by J. K. Davies, "The Hellenistic World" by F. W. Walbank, "The Roman Republic" by Michael Crawford, "The Later Roman Empire" by Averil Cameron, all available from Harvard] cover much of the history of the classical world, and do so with both ease and authority...For this new series they have been revised or otherwise brought up to date.--Washington Post Book World
Oswyn Murray's "Early Greece" is a volume which has the dual purpose of providing an up-to-date account of major periods and of presenting the methodology employed by scholars of each particular age. Murray has fulfilled both tasks admirably...[He] sets the story of Greece in a broad perspective geographically and intellectually.--C. G. Thomas "American Historical Review "
This book cannot fail to be challenging, and not only to the general reader...[The era covered in this study] was perhaps the most important in Greek history and indeed one of the most significant in all history. Murray...has done it full justice.--Paul Cartledge "Times Literary Supplement "
Oswyn Murray's Early Greece is a volume which has the dual purpose of providing an up-to-date account of major periods and of presenting the methodology employed by scholars of each particular age. Murray has fulfilled both tasks admirably...[He] sets the story of Greece in a broad perspective geographically and intellectually.--C. G. Thomas "American Historical Review "
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authority...For this new series they have been revised or otherwise brought up to date.
each particular age. Murray has fulfilled both tasks admirably...[He] sets the story of Greece in a broad perspective geographically and intellectually.
Oswyn Murray's Early Greece is a volume which has the dual purpose of providing an up-to-date account of major periods and of presenting the methodology employed by scholars of each particular age. Murray has fulfilled both tasks admirably...[He] sets the story of Greece in a broad perspective geographically and intellectually.
Together these five compact volumes [ Early Greece by Oswyn Murray, Democracy and Classical Greece by J. K. Davies, The Hellenistic World by F. W. Walbank, The Roman Republic by Michael Crawford, The Later Roman Empire by Averil Cameron, all available from Harvard] cover much of the history of the classical world, and do so with both ease and authority...For this new series they have been revised or otherwise brought up to date.
Together these five compact volumes ["Early Greece" by Oswyn Murray, "Democracy and Classical Greece" by J. K. Davies, "The Hellenistic World" by F. W. Walbank, "The Roman Republic" by Michael Crawford, "The Later Roman Empire" by Averil Cameron, all available from Harvard] cover much of the history of the classical world, and do so with both ease and authority...For this new series they have been revised or otherwise brought up to date.--Washington Post Book World
Oswyn Murray's "Early Greece" is a volume which has the dual purpose of providing an up-to-date account of major periods and of presenting the methodology employed by scholars of each particular age. Murray has fulfilled both tasks admirably...[He] sets the story of Greece in a broad perspective geographically and intellectually.--C. G. Thomas "American Historical Review "
This book cannot fail to be challenging, and not only to the general reader...[The era covered in this study] was perhaps the most important in Greek history and indeed one of the most significant in all history. Murray...has done it full justice.--Paul Cartledge "Times Literary Supplement "
Oswyn Murray's Early Greece is a volume which has the dual purpose of providing an up-to-date account of major periods and of presenting the methodology employed by scholars of each particular age. Murray has fulfilled both tasks admirably...[He] sets the story of Greece in a broad perspective geographically and intellectually.--C. G. Thomas "American Historical Review "
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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- PublisherHarperPerennial
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0007180179
- ISBN 13 9780007180172
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages368
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