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From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed jacket, occasional pencil annotations in the text, otherwise very good and clean. / Leicht beriebener Umschlag, Bleistiftanmerkungen im Text, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - Whatever aspect of Athenian culture one examines, whether it be tragedy and comedy, philosophy, vase-painting and sculpture, oratory and rhetoric, law and politics, or social and economic life, the picture looks very different after 400 bc from before 400 bc. Scholars who have previously addressed this question have concentrated on particular areas and come up with explanations, often connected with the psychological effect of the Peloponnesian War, which are very unconvincing as explanations for the whole range of change. This book attempts to look at a wide range of evidence for cultural change at Athens and to examine the ways in which the changes may have been co-ordinated. It is a complement to the examination of the rhetoric of revolution as applied to ancient Greece in Rethinking Revolutions through Ancient Greece (Cambridge, 2006). Robin Osborne is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King�s College. His numerous publications include Greece in the Making (1996), Archaic and Classical Greek Art (1998), Greek Historical Inscriptions 404�323 bc (2003, edited with P. J. Rhodes) and Poverty in the Roman World (2006, edited with Margaret Atkins). - Contents: Tracing cultural revolution in classical Athens (Robin Osborne) -- The nature and implications of Athens� changed social structure and economy (Ben Akrigg) -- Why the Athenians began to curse (Esther Eidinow) -- A new political world (Claire Taylor) -- Cultural change, space, and the politics of commemoration in Athens (Julia L. Shear) -- The anatomy of metalepsis: visuality turns around on late fifth-century pots (Katharina Lorenz) -- Style and agency in an age of transition (Peter Schultz) -- The politics of precedence: first �historians� on first �thalassocrats� (Elizabeth Irwin) -- The form of Plato�s Republic (Alex Long) -- Aristophanes� Assembly Women and Plato, Republic book 5 (Robert Tordoff) -- Greek tragedy 430-380 bc (Edith Hall) -- The sound of mousike: reflections on aural change in ancient Greece (Amand D�Angour). ISBN 9780521879163