City of Sokrates: An Introduction to Classical AthensIn this extensively updated second edition, including an up-dated index and bibliography, J. W. Roberts explores the main features of Athenian life in the latter half of the fifth century BC. |
Contents
Population property taxation | 22 |
Radical democracy | 50 |
The imperial ethos | 85 |
Religion | 112 |
Art and patronage | 151 |
Science nature culture and the sophists | 212 |
Philosophy from Anaxagoras to Sokrates | 232 |
Athenian money | 253 |
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