The school of history : Athens in the age of Socrates /
History, political philosophy, and constitutional law were born in Athens in the space of a single generation--the generation that lived through the Peloponnesian War (431-404 b.c.e.). This remarkable age produced such luminaries as Socrates, Herodotus, Thucydides, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes...
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Μορφή: | Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London :
University of California Press,
�2000.
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Διαθέσιμο Online: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=66098 |
Περίληψη: | History, political philosophy, and constitutional law were born in Athens in the space of a single generation--the generation that lived through the Peloponnesian War (431-404 b.c.e.). This remarkable age produced such luminaries as Socrates, Herodotus, Thucydides, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and the sophists, and set the stage for the education and early careers of Plato and Xenophon, among others. |
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Φυσική περιγραφή: | 1 online resource (xii, 525 pages) : illustrations |
Βιβλιογραφία: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-467) and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9780520929715 0520929713 0585391165 9780585391168 0520215575 9780520215573 1597348880 9781597348881 |