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Nicholas F. Jones - Rural Athens Under the Democracy - 9780812237740 - V9780812237740
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Rural Athens Under the Democracy

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Description for Rural Athens Under the Democracy Hardback. The first comprehensive attempt to reconstruct, on its own terms, the world of Athens outside the city walls during the classical fifth and fourth centuries B.C. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 658.

Much of the evidence—literary, historical, documentary, and pictorial—from ancient Athens is urban in authorship, subject matter, and intended audience. The result has been the assertion of an undifferentiated monolithic "Athenian" citizen regime as often as not identifiably urban in its lifestyle, preoccupations, and attitude. In Rural Athens Under the Democracy, however, Nicholas F. Jones undertakes the first comprehensive attempt to reconstruct on its own terms the world of rural Attica outside the walls during the "classical" fifth and fourth centuries B.C. What he finds is a distinctly nonurban (and nonurbane) order dominated by a traditional, predominantly agrarian society and culture.... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812237740
SKU
V9780812237740
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About Nicholas F. Jones
Nicholas F. Jones is Professor of Classics at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Public Organization in Ancient Greece, Ancient Greece: State and Society, and The Associations of Classical Athens: The Response to Democracy.

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"This superb work belongs in the libraries of all universities. Essential."-Choice

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