The rise and fall of classical Greece /

"Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly healthy Greeks lived in remarkably big houses...

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Tác giả chính: Ober, Josiah
Định dạng: Sách
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2015.
Loạt:The Princeton history of the ancient world
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Classic Catalogue: View this record in Classic Catalogue
Mục lục:
  • The puzzle of classical efflorescence
  • Ants around a pond : an ecology of city-states
  • Political animals : a theory of decentralized cooperation
  • Wealthy Hellas : measuring efflorescence
  • Explaining Hellas' wealth
  • Citizens and specialization, to 550 BCE
  • From tyranny to democracy, 550-465 BCE
  • Golden age of empire, 478-404 BCE
  • Disorder and growth, 403-340 BCE
  • Political fall, 359-334 BCE
  • Creative destruction and immortality
  • Appendix I: Regions of the Greek world
  • Appendix II: King, City, Elite game / Josiah Ober and Barry Weingast
  • Images and Tables
  • Maps.