Munn, Mark: 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. This book provides the fullest and most detailed intellectual and political history available of Athens during the late fifth century b.c.e., as it examines the background, the context, and the decisive events shaping this society in the throes of war. This expansive, readable narrative ultimately leads to a new understanding of Athenian democratic culture, showing why and how it yielded such extraordinary intellectual productivity. XII,525 Seiten mit 14 Abb. und vier Karten, Halbleinen (Joan Palevsky Imprint in Classical Literature/University of California Press 2000) textsauber, mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren/clean text pages, minor traces of use

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