"In this updated addition to the Reacting to the Past family, the classroom is transformed into 5th-century Athens,
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This book offers the first attempt at understanding interpersonal violence in ancient Athens. While the archaic desire f
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The first comprehensive attempt to reconstruct, on its own terms, the world of Athens outside the city walls during the
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His book can profitably be read by anyone concerned with the issues at the heart of classical and contemporary democracy
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Decree-making is a defining aspect of ancient Greek political activity: it was the means by which city-state communities
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Much of the evidence--literary, historical, documentary, and pictorial--from ancient Athens is urban in authorship, subj
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Is democracy in crisis? Not according to this book! In this fascinating study, Professor Qvortrup shows that citizens ar
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Erudite and urbane, a scion of the Peripatos, Demetrius of Phalerum dominated Athenian political life for a decade (317-
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Classical Athenian literature often speaks of democratic politics in sexual terms. Citizens are urged to become lovers o
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Civic Rites explores the religious origins of Western democracy by examining the government of fifth-century BCE Athens
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