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Greek Polis

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ISBN-10: 0226069354

ISBN-13: 9780226069357

Edition: 1986

Authors: John W. Boyer, Julius Kirshner, Arthur W. H. Adkins, Peter White

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The University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization (nine volumes) makes available to students and teachers a unique selection of primary documents, many in new translations. These readings, prepared for the highly praised Western civilization sequence at the University of Chicago, were chosen by an outstanding group of scholars whose experience teaching that course spans almost four decades. Each volume includes rarely anthologized selections as well as standard, more familiar texts; a bibliography of recommended parallel readings; and introductions providing background for the selections. Beginning with Periclean Athens and concluding with twentieth-century Europe, these source…    
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Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/15/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Series Editors'
Foreword
General Introduction
Homer Introduction
Homer,Odyssey,Book 2: The Assembly at Ithaca
Homer,Iliad18.474-617: The Shield of Achilles Tyrtaeus, Solon, Theognis Introduction
Two Poems by Tyrtaeus Tyrtaeus 10W: Exhortation to the Young Hoplite Tyrtaeus 11W: The Hoplite's Handbook
Two Poems by Solon Solon 4W:EunomiaandDusnomia Solon 13W: Prosperity, Justice, and the Hazards of Life
Three Poems by Theognis Theognis 53-68W: Social Upheaval Theognis 173-78W: Poverty and theAgathos Theognis 183-92W: Breeding, Good and Bad Pindar Introduction
Pindar,Sixth Nemean Ode Herodotus Introduction
Three Selections from Herodotus'History Herodotus
History1.59-63: The Installation of the Pisistratid Tyranny Herodotus
History5.62-73: The Overthrow of the Pisistratids and the Oganization of the Cleisthenic Democracy Herodotus
History3.80-84: The Debate in Persia about Constitutions The Old Oligarch Introduction
The Old Oligarch,The Athenian Constitution Aristophanes Introduction
Aristophanes,The Wasps Lysias Introduction
Lysias,On the Killing of Eratosthenes Demosthenes Introduction
Demosthenes,The Oration against Eubulides Plato Introduction
Plato, TheApology
Plato, TheCrito
Plato,Protagoras320c-328d: Protagoras' Myth
Plato,Republic5.471c-473e: The Philosopher-Ruler Aristotle Introduction
Aristotle,The Constitution of Athens
Aristotle,Politics,Book 1.1-2 and Books 7 and 8
Aristotle,Economics,Book 1 Epicurus Introduction
Epicurus,Letter to Menoeceus Epictetus Introduction
Epictetus,Encheiridion
Index