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Kosmos: Essays In Order, Conflict And Community In Classical Athens

by Paul Cartledge

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This book examines how the various groups of people of which the polis of Classical Athens was composed got on together--or failed to do so. The authors collectively bring out what was distinctive about life in an ancient Greek city that was unusual ... Read more
This book examines how the various groups of people of which the polis of Classical Athens was composed got on together--or failed to do so. The authors collectively bring out what was distinctive about life in an ancient Greek city that was unusual both in its size and social complexity and in the extent of the democracy it practiced. The emphasis is broadly on the great success of the Athenians'' communal experiment but tensions and fissures arising from religious, sexual, economic and political differences are not elided or glossed over. Less

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File size9.02 X 5.98 X 0.83 in
Print pages286
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date July 2, 1998
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780521570817
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Paul Cartledge
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Paul Cartledge is A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture in the University of Cambridge, and Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Clare College, Cambridge. Over the course of his distingui...

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