Hellenistic Reception of Classical Athenian Democracy and Political Thought
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780198748472
Subjects: Democracy; Athens (greece), history
Description: "In the Hellenistic period (c.323-31 BCE), Greek teachers, philosophers, historians, orators, and politicians found an essential point of reference in the democracy of Classical Athens and the political thought which it produced. However, while Athenian civic life and thought in the Classical period have been intensively studied, these aspects of the Hellenistic period have so far received much less attention. This volume seeks to bring together the two areas of research, shedding new light on these complementary parts of the history of the ancient Greek polis."--Back cover.