The school of history : Athens in the age of Socrates
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
History
1 online resource (xii, 525 pages)
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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