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Aristophanes
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2

This volume collects six of the eleven surviving plays of Aristophanes: The Wasps - a satire on the Athenian jury system, featuring an elderly juror obsessed with court proceedings The Birds - two Athenia…

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Cynthia Farrar
The Origins of Democratic Thinking

The Athenians invented democracy - and as they grappled with the implications, they also invented democratic political theory. By reconstruing Protagoras the sophist, Thucydides the historian, and Democri…

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Cynthia Farrar
The Origins of Democratic Thinking

The Athenians invented democracy - and as they grappled with the implications, they also invented democratic political theory. By reconstruing Protagoras the sophist, Thucydides the historian, and Democri…

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Emmanouil M. L. Economou, Nicholas C. Kyriazis
Daily Life in Classical Athens

This book presents the economic heartbeat and institutional details that shaped Athenian society during the Classical period (508-323 BCE), employing an innovative and outside-the-box approach to studying…

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Edith Hall
Sophocles

Very Short Introductions

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring This Very Short Introduction introduces the life, work, and influence of one of the greatest dramatists of all time, Sophocles the Athenian.Placing hi…

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Annabel Savery
99 Questions About: The Ancient Greeks

Discover the fascinating world of the ancient Greeks through 99 questions and answersWhere did the ancient Greeks do their shopping? Why did the Athenians worship Athena? And just what happened in a hippo…

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Mary Beth Norton
I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer

"In the late seventeenth century, the bookseller John Dunton began soliciting anonymous questions for a new broadsheet periodical, The Athenian Mercury, that he hoped would provide entertainment and …

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Zachary P. Biles, S. Douglas Olson
Aristophanes

Aristophanes' Knights was a sensation in its time, famous for its assault on the Athenian politician and demagogue Cleon in the first comic drama devoted to a sustained, open satire of an individual polit…

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Jennifer T. Roberts
Thucydides

Very Short Introductions

Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring In 432 BCE the powerful city-state of Sparta on the peninsula of the Peloponnesus in southwestern Greece declared war on Athens, head of a mighty nav…

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Reassessing the Peloponnesian War

Modern accounts of the great war between the Athenians and the Spartans in the late fifth century BC have simply reanalysed the gripping analysis of military and political events given by Thucydides. But …

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Reassessing the Peloponnesian War

Modern accounts of the great war between the Athenians and the Spartans in the late fifth century BC have simply reanalysed the gripping analysis of military and political events given by Thucydides. But …

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Robert Tordoff
Aristophanes: Cavalry

Offering for the first time a student introduction to Aristophanes' most explosive political satire, this volume is an essential guide to the context, themes and later reception of Cavalry . The ancient c…

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Mary Renault
The Bull from the Sea

The greater part of me had been Theseus the Athenian, team-leader of the Cranes; the odds-on fancy, the back-somersault boy, the first of the bull-leapers. . . Now it was time to be my father's son.Having…

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Carol Atack
Plato

Now in paperback, a new reading of Plato's philosophy that reveals it as deeply shaped by his experiences in Athens.Plato is a key figure from the beginnings of Western philosophy, yet the impact of his l…

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