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| Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
| ISBN 13 | 9780199285167 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199285160 |
| Book Subtitle | And Other Essays |
| Book Description | In these interconnected essays the late Geoffrey de Ste. Croix defends the institutions of the Athenian democracy, showing that they were much more practical, rational, and impartial than has usually been acknowledged. A major essay provides a new view of Aristotle's use of sources in The Constitution of the Athenians, on which so much of our knowledge of Athenian constitutional history depends. Ste. Croix also argues that commercial factors had much less influence on Greek politics than modern scholars tend to assume, and that there was no such thing in any Greek state as a `commercial aristocracy'. As always, he works out these general positions with the utmost lucidity and pungency, and |
| Language | English |
| Author | G. E. M. de Ste Croix |
| Publication Date | 25-Jan-12 |
| Number of Pages | 472 |
Athenian Democratic Origins paperback english - 25-Jan-12
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