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Record Nr.

UNISA996201148403316

Titolo

The Cambridge companion to the Age of Pericles / / edited by Loren J. Samons II [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007

ISBN

1-139-81667-5

1-139-00115-9

9781139001151

1139001159

9780521807937

052180793X

9780521003896

052100389X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 343 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge companions to the ancient world

Disciplina

938/.04

Soggetti

Greece History Athenian supremacy, 479-431 B.C

Athens (Greece) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-331) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Democracy and empire / P.J. Rhodes -- 2. Athenian religion in the Age of Pericles / Deborah Boedeker -- 3. The Athenian economy / Lisa Kallet -- 4. Warfare in Athenian society / K.A. Raaflaub -- 5. Other sorts: slave, foreign, and female identities in Periclean Athens / Cynthia Patterson --  6. Art and architecture / Kenneth Lapatin -- 7. Drama and democracy / Jeffrey Henderson -- 8. The bureaucracy of democracy / J.P. Sickinger -- 9. Plato's Sophists, intellectual history after 450, and Sokrates / Robert W. Wallace -- 10. Democratic theory and practice / R. Sealey -- 11. Athens and Sparta and the coming of the Peloponnesian War / J.E. Lendon -- Conclusion: Pericles and Athens / L.J. Samons.

Sommario/riassunto

Mid-fifth-century Athens saw the development of the Athenian empire, the radicalization of Athenian democracy through the empowerment of poorer citizens, the adornment of the city through a massive and



expensive building program, the classical age of Athenian tragedy, the assembly of intellectuals offering novel approaches to philosophical and scientific issues, and the end of the Spartan-Athenian alliance against Persia and the beginning of open hostilities between the two greatest powers of ancient Greece. The Athenian statesman Pericles both fostered and supported many of these developments. Although it is no longer fashionable to view Periclean Athens as a social or cultural paradigm, study of the history, society, art, and literature of mid-fifth-century Athens remains central to any understanding of Greek history. This collection of essays reveal the political, religious, economic, social, artistic, literary, intellectual, and military infrastructure that made the Age of Pericles possible.