Democracy and Classical Greece: Second Edition

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.

• | Author: John Kenyon Davies
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 01, 1993
• | Number of Pages: 328 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0674196074
• | ISBN-13: 9780674196070