Moral Values and Political Behaviour in Ancient Greece: From Homer to the End of the Fifth Century

Author/Contributor(s):	Adkins, A W H
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Company
Date:	09/01/1976
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Greek society developed more rapidly than did its values or the presuppositions on which the values were based. By the end of the fifth century the Greeks faced serious problems, not because they had abandoned traditional values to which they needed to be recalled, but because they retained them in a situation far different from that in which the values had developed and were appropriate.