The school of history : Athens in the age of Socrates /

• Main Author: Munn, Mark Henderson
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London : University of California Press, �2000.
• Subjects: 479-431 B.C; Democracy > Greece > Athens > Historiography.; HISTORY > Ancient.; Civilization > Political aspects.; Democracy > Historiography.; Athens (Greece) > Civilization > Political aspects.; Greece > History > Athenian supremacy, 479-431 B.C.; Greece.; Greece > Athens.; Athene.; Electronic books.; History.

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...