1st Edition

Athenian Politics c800-500 BC A Sourcebook

By G. R. Stanton Copyright 1990
244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

This book is designed to sharpen historical skills by a critical approach to the sources of information on ancient Athenian politics. It presents contemporary sources, later historical and biographical writings, archaeological evidence, inscriptions on stone, and papyri from Egypt. The reader has available in translation virtually all the documents on which scholars of this period base their... Read more

Introduction I Attike before Solon II Solon III From Solon to Peisistratos IV The Peisistratid tyranny V Kleisthenes VI The noble families

Biography

Professor Stanton is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of New
England, Australia.