The Pelican History of GreecePenguin, 1966 - 415 pages The general reader is introduced to Greek history from the time of the neolit pioneers to the close of the Hellenistic Age. |
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... Homer may also be recognized , some more , some less confidently , in Egyptian records . When the young Rameses II tried to recover Syria , he was met by a Hittite imperial army including contingents with names known from Homer as ...
... Homer may also be recognized , some more , some less confidently , in Egyptian records . When the young Rameses II tried to recover Syria , he was met by a Hittite imperial army including contingents with names known from Homer as ...
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... Homer is that he is irreligious . True , the gods are always at hand in his stories . Zeus holds the scales of ... Homer's use of the gods for comic relief is a fact about Ionian society in his time , and about Greek cul- tured society ...
... Homer is that he is irreligious . True , the gods are always at hand in his stories . Zeus holds the scales of ... Homer's use of the gods for comic relief is a fact about Ionian society in his time , and about Greek cul- tured society ...
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... Homer's Olympians are not completely un- ethical ; his Zeus may send rainstorms at harvest time upon men who do not do justice in their assemblies . Nor are his people always ( though they are quite often ) thinking about death and fate ...
... Homer's Olympians are not completely un- ethical ; his Zeus may send rainstorms at harvest time upon men who do not do justice in their assemblies . Nor are his people always ( though they are quite often ) thinking about death and fate ...
Table des matières
PREHISTORY | 12 |
Beginnings | 21 |
Peoples and Languages and the Coming | 30 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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Achaians Acropolis Aegean Aeschylus Aigina Alexander Alkibiades alliance allies ancient Antigonos Archon Argos army Asia Assembly Athenian Athens attack Attica battle Boiotia bronze called campaign cavalry century citizens civilisation classical coast colonies Corinth Cretan Crete Cyprus Darius death defeated Delphoi democracy democratic Dorian east Egypt Egyptian empire enemy Euboia Euripides exiles famous father fighting fleet force gods Greece Greek Herodotos Homer Ionia island killed king Kleomenes Knosós Kroton land later League Macedonia mainland Megara Miletos Minoan modern Mycenae Mycenaean Nikias palace peace Peloponnese Peloponnesians perhaps Pericles Persian Pheidias Philip Phoenician Phokis Piraeus Plato poems poet political pottery probably Pylos revolution Roman Salamis Samos says sent ships Sicily slaves Socrates Sparta story survived Syracuse temple Thebes Themistokles Thermopylai Thessaly things thought Thucydides tion took tradition troops Troy tyrant victory walls Xerxes young Zeus