Democracy and Classical Greece

Harvard University Press 2007,

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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

Dust jacket

Yes

State of preservation

Very Good

Binding

Hardcover

Inscribed

First edition

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