Democracy and Classical Greece: Second Edition (Revised)

Author/Contributor(s):	Davies, John Kenyon
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Date:	01/01/1993
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

The art of classical Greece, and its political and philosophical ideas, have had a profound influence on Western civilization. It was in the fifth and fourth centuries BC that this Greek culture--material, political and intellectual--reached its zenith. At the same time, the Greek states were at their most powerful and quarrelsome. J. K. Davies traces the flowering of this extraordinary society, drawing on a wealth of documentary material: houses and graves, extant sculpture and vases, as well as the writings of historians, orators, biographers, dramatists, and philosophers.