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Language: en
Pages: 313
Pages: 313
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Studies all four branches of the Athenian armed forces to show how they helped make democratic Athens a superpower.
Language: en
Pages: 479
Pages: 479
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-12-23 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Analyses how the democracy of the classical Athenians revolutionized military practices and underwrote their unprecedented commitment to war-making.
Language: en
Pages: 265
Pages: 265
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This book explains why the democracy of classical Athens generously sponsored elite sport and idolised its sporting victors.
Language: en
Pages: 328
Pages: 328
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-04-23 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
"This is unlike any recent work I know of. It offers a challenging, often refreshing, and what will certainly be a controversial assessment of classical Athenia
Language: en
Pages: 325
Pages: 325
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-26 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War is the first comprehensive study of Thucydides' presentation of Pericles' radical redefini