Archaic and Classical Greece A Selection of Ancient Sources in Translation

Name: Archaic and Classical Greece A Selection of Ancient Sources in Translation
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ISBN: 9780521296380

ISBN-10: 0521296382

ISBN-13: 9780521296380

Edition: 1983

Authors: Michael H. Crawford, David Whitehead

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The aim of this book is to collect in one comprehensive volume a representative selection of ancient sources in translation, with commentary, on the history, institutions, society and economy of the Greek world from c. 750 to 338 B.C. - that is, the period best known and most important for the evolution of the polis, a form of political community which combined the aspects of city and state in a physical and psychological unity unparalleled either before or since. For us, the inheritors of much that the Greeks created, there is an inherent interest in the way in which they organised their society during these centuries, in addition to what individual members of that society can still…

Book details

List price: $74.99
Copyright year: 1983
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/13/1983
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 660
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 1.42" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English



List of figures


List of maps


Preface


Conventions and abbreviations


Glossary


Weights, measures, money


Introduction I: Greek society


Introduction II: the sources



The Archaic Period



The Fifth Century



The Peloponnesian War



The Fourth Century


Chronological table


Table of rulers


Index of ancient sources


Index of Greek words


Index of names


Index of subjects