City of Sokrates: An Introduction to Classical Athens / Edition 1

by J.W. Roberts

Overview

In this extensively updated second edition, including an up-dated index and bibliography, J. W. Roberts explores the main features of Athenian life in the latter half of the fifth century BC.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415167789
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/14/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

List of figures, Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction, The sources of knowledge, 1 Country and town, 2 Population, property, taxation, 3 Radical democracy, 4 The imperial ethos, 5 Schooling, literacy, books and history, 6 Religion, 7 Art and patronage, 8 Science, nature, culture and the sophists, 9 Philosophy, from Anaxagoras to Sokrates, Appendix 1: Athenian money, Appendix 2: Chronological table, Further reading, Index