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Kosmos: Essays in Order, Conflict and Community in Classical Athens

By Paul Cartledge , Paul Millett , Sitta von Reden

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0521525934, 9780521525930
Open Library ID
OL7744527M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
43 MB (45502779 bytes)
Pages
288\278
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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