Archaic and Classical Greece by Michael H. Crawford, David Wh... - 9780521227759

Archaic and Classical GreeceA Selection of Ancient Sources in Translation\nAuthor(s): Michael H. Crawford, David Whitehead\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521227759, 978-0521227759\nSynopsis\nThe aim of this book is to collect in one comprehensive volume a representative selection of ancient sources in translation, with commentary, on the history, institutions, society and economy of the Greek world from c. 750 to 338 BC - that is, the period best known and most important for the evolution of the polis, a form of political community which combined the aspects of city and state in a physical and psychological unity unparalleled either before or since. For us, the inheritors of much that the Greeks created, there is an inherent interest in the way in which they organised their society during these centuries. Although this book assumes no knowledge of Greek, the reader is introduced to a range of.