This ambitious book treats urbanisation and urbanism all over the world, and from the earliest times to the present.

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The volume includes a rich array of maps, stemmata, and diagrams, plus a glossary, chronology, plan of the agora in 399 B.C.E., bibliography, and indices.

In this book, Sara Monoson challenges the longstanding and widely held view that Plato is a virulent opponent of all things democratic.

Aspasia of Miletus, next to Sappho and Cleopatra, is one of the best known women of the classical world.

This book traces Perikles' development from a somewhat hesitant, though left-leaning politician, to a mature statesman fully committed to expanding Athens' maritime empire and using the material benefits of that empire to improve the ...

The discussions of individual plays are original and illuminating. The book will be indispensable reading for those researching women in Greek drama or gender in ancient literature."--Edith Hall, Somerville College, Oxford

The first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and causes of the conflict, based on evidence produced by modern scholarship and on a careful reconsideration ...

This outstanding work by a renowned Plato scholar presents the thought of the great Greek philosopher with historical accuracy and objective analysis.