This volume is one of the most important works on ancient Athens in the last fifty years. The focus is on the early city, from the end of the Bronze Age--ca. 12
Athens is often considered to have been the birth place of democracy but there were many democracies in Greece during the Archaic and Classical periods and this
This book is a comprehensive introduction to ancient Athens, its topography, monuments, inhabitants, cultural institutions, religious rituals, and politics. Dra
A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history’s most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biog
This book illuminates the distinctive character of our modern understanding of the basis and value of free speech by contrasting it with the very different form