Kosmos: Essays in Order, Conflict and Community in Classical Athens

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Kosmos: Essays in Order, Conflict and Community in Classical Athens
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Paul Cartledge
Edited by Paul Millett
Edited by Sitta von Reden
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreWorld history
World history - BCE to c 500 CE
World history - c 500 to C 1500
World history - c 1500 to c 1750
World history - c 1750 to c 1900
World history - from c 1900 to now
ISBN/Barcode 9780521525930
ClassificationsDewey:938.5
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 9 Halftones, unspecified; 4 Line drawings, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 8 August 2002
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This book examines how the various groups of people of which the polis of Classical Athens was composed got on together--or failed to do so. The authors collectively bring out what was distinctive about life in an ancient Greek city that was unusual both in its size and social complexity and in the extent of the democracy it practiced. The emphasis is broadly on the great success of the Athenians' communal experiment but tensions and fissures arising from religious, sexual, economic and political differences are not elided or glossed over.