The school of history : Athens in the age of Socrates / Mark Munn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Munn, Mark Henderson.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Greece--Athens--Historiography.

Democracy.

Athens (Greece)--Civilization--Political aspects.

Athens (Greece).

Greece--History--Athenian supremacy, 479-431 B.C.

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (544 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2019

Place of Publication:

Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London : University of California Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Maps; Introduction; 1 The Past of Democratic Athens; 2 The Aristocracy of Democratic Athens; 3 Servants of the Athenian Democracy; 4 The Expulsion of Alcibiades, 415-413; 5 Rationalizing Oligarchy, 413-411; 6 A Procession of Victories, 411-408; 7 The Limits of Democratic Imperative, 408-405; 8 Surrendering to Sparta, 405-404; 9 The Athenian Civil War, 404-403; 10 The Laws of Athens, 403-400; 11 Eliminating Socrates, 401-399; 12 Athenian Democracy and History, 399-395; Appendices; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; General Index

Index Locorum

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-467) and indexes.

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ISBN:

9780520929715

0520929713

9781597348881

1597348880

OCLC:

475927957