Democracy and Classical Greece
Democracy and Classical Greece
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- ISBN
- 0674196074
- Author
- Davies, John Kenyon
- Publishers
- Harvard University Press 2007
- Keyword
- Classica Ancient Rome Greece
- Cover description
- Very Good
- Binding description
- H
- Dust jacket
- True
- State of preservation
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- False
Description
8vo - l. ; 308 pages with index, Second Edition;(The art of classical Greece, along with its political and philosophical ideas, had a profound influence on Western Civilization, and here J.K. Davies, Rathbone Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaelogy, traces the flowering of this extraordinary society, drawing on a wealth of documentary material of houses and graves, sculpture and vases, and writings of historians, orators, biographers, dramatists, and philosophers. It was in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C., that this culture - material, political and intellectual, reached its zenith, but it's also been said that while the Greek states were at their most powerful, it was also the most quarrelsome