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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 March 2009
      15 January 2007
      ISBN:
      9781139001151
      9780521807937
      9780521003896
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521807937
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.748kg, 400 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.64kg, 400 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General)
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World
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    Subjects:
    Ancient History, Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General)
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World
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    Mid-fifth-century Athens saw the development of the Athenian empire, the radicalization of Athenian democracy through the empowerment of poorer citizens, the adornment of the city through a massive and expensive building program, the classical age of Athenian tragedy, the assembly of intellectuals offering novel approaches to philosophical and scientific issues, and the end of the Spartan-Athenian alliance against Persia and the beginning of open hostilities between the two greatest powers of ancient Greece. The Athenian statesman Pericles both fostered and supported many of these developments. Although it is no longer fashionable to view Periclean Athens as a social or cultural paradigm, study of the history, society, art, and literature of mid-fifth-century Athens remains central to any understanding of Greek history. This collection of essays reveal the political, religious, economic, social, artistic, literary, intellectual, and military infrastructure that made the Age of Pericles possible.

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    'The contributors have written extensively on the topics which they discuss in this Companion. They have managed to condense their own researches and other recent scholarship into very readable articles.'

    Source: Arctos

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    • 1 - Democracy and Empire
      pp 24-45
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