The school of history
Subtitle: Athens in the age of Socrates
By: Mark Munn.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 525
Subjects: Democracy -- Greece -- Athens -- Historiography; Athens (Greece) -- Civilization; Greece -- History -- Athenian supremancy, 479-431 B.C
Description: "The School of History provides detailed intellectual and political history of Athens during the late fifth century B.C.E. as it examines the background, the context, and the decisive events shaping this society in the throes of war. This narrative ultimately leads to a new understanding of Athenian democratic culture, showing why and how it yielded such extraordinary intellectual productivity."--BOOK JACKET.