ABSTRACT

In this extensively updated second edition, including an up-dated index and bibliography, J. W. Roberts explores the main features of Athenian life in the latter half of the fifth century BC.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

chapter |2 pages

The sources of Knowledge

chapter 1|11 pages

Country and town

chapter 2|22 pages

Population, property, taxation

chapter 3|29 pages

Radical democracy

chapter 4|10 pages

The imperial ethos

chapter 5|13 pages

Schooling, literacy, books and history

chapter 6|32 pages

Religion

chapter 7|49 pages

Art and patronage

chapter 8|16 pages

Science, nature, culture and the sophists

chapter 9|17 pages

Philosophy, from Anaxagoras to Sokrates