Democracy in Classical Greece Athens Sparta Thebes Peloponnesian War Homes Tombs

Description: Democracy and Classical Greece by J.K. Davies, Second Edition. DESCRIPTION: Hardback: 308 pages. Publisher: Harvard University Press; (1993). Size: 8¼ x 5¾ inches x 1¼ inches; 1 pound. The art of Classical Greece, and its political and philosophical ideas, have had a profound influence on Western civilization. It was in the fourth and fifth centuries B.C. 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. Davies traces the flowering of this extraordinary society, drawing on a wealth of documentary material; houses and graves, sculpture and vases, and the writings of historians, orators, biographers, dramatists, and philosophers. CONDITION: NEW. Unblemished except VERY slight edge and corner shelf wear and rubbing to dustjacket (dustjacket is high gloss dark green and so shows rub marks very easily merely from being shelved between other books). Very minimal wear consistent with new stock from an open-shelf book store (such as Barnes & Noble, etc.). Pages are pristine; clean, crisp, unmarked, unmutilated, tightly bound, unambiguously unread. In stock, ready to ship. No disappointments, no excuses. PROMPT SHIPPING! HEAVILY PADDED, DAMAGE-FREE PACKAGING! #265. PLEASE SEE IMAGES BELOW FOR JACKET DESCRIPTION(S) AND FOR PAGES OF PICTURES FROM INSIDE OF BOOK. PLEASE SEE PUBLISHER, PROFESSIONAL, AND READER REVIEWS BELOW. PUBLISHER REVIEW: Traces the flowering of this extraordinary society, drawing on a wealth of documentary material: houses and graves, sculpture and vases, and the writings of historians, orators, biographers, dramatists, and philosophers. J. K. Davies is J.K. Davies Professor and Head of Department at Liverpool University. PROFESSIONAL REVIEW: Davies has produced a perceptive, readable narrative, filled with sensible insights and enriched with a generous and judicious selection of quotations from sources. He skillfully interweaves social and cultural history with political and military matters. Students as well as historians will benefit from his deft exegesis of texts (inscriptions, plays, philosophic pieces, anecdotes) and his cautionary reminders of what we do not know about the past. All in all, this is the best short history of Greece on the market. This is intended as a "second" book for the student on this era. Read a general survey first, then go to something like this book. His focus is on the evolution and development of democracy in this period. His discussion continues on down after the fall of Athens in 404 BC. READER REVIEW: This is a really great and very readable history of Classical Greece. To be sure, the emphasis is on the development of the concepts of democracy. But it is a great general history as well. Special emphasis on Athens, Sparta, Thebes, and the Peloponnesian War. I always ship books Media Mail in a padded mailer. 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