Archaic Greece from Homer to Aeschylus.
Threshold| N° d'inventaire | 25026 |
| Format | |
| Détails | 192 p., paperback |
| Publication | |
| Etat | Occasion |
| ISBN | 9782020069441 |
The Greek archaic period was for a long time the equivalent of our Middle Ages, considered as dark, rigid and frozen centuries. However, thanks to the progress of archaeology, to a very close reading of the texts, we better understand this period which, suddenly, comes to life before our eyes: we witness the passage from single combat to pitched battle, from dependence to democracy within the city, from piracy to the establishment of distant colonies, from the universe of heroes and gods to the world of men – peasants, wise legislators and tyrants who led Greece from heroic times to the classical age. A journey to Greece where Mycenae, Sparta, Athens and the Greek islands relive a distant past whose traces are now intelligible and familiar to us.6,86
The Greek archaic period was for a long time the equivalent of our Middle Ages, considered as dark, rigid and frozen centuries. However, thanks to the progress of archaeology, to a very close reading of the texts, we better understand this period which, suddenly, comes to life before our eyes: we witness the passage from single combat to pitched battle, from dependence to democracy within the city, from piracy to the establishment of distant colonies, from the universe of heroes and gods to the world of men – peasants, wise legislators and tyrants who led Greece from heroic times to the classical age. A journey to Greece where Mycenae, Sparta, Athens and the Greek islands relive a distant past whose traces are now intelligible and familiar to us.6,86