<p><b>A major new history of classical Greece¿how it rose, how it fell, and what we can learn from it</b><br><br>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 and worked for high wages at specialized occupations. Middle-class spending drove sustained economic growth and classical wealth produced a stunning cultural efflorescence lasting hundreds of years.<br><br>Why did Greece reach such heights in the classical period¿and why only then? And how, after "the Greek miracle" had endured for centuries, did the Macedonians defeat the Greeks, seemingly bringing an end to their glory? Drawing on a massive body of newly available data and employing novel approaches to evidence, Josiah Ober offers a major new history of classical Greece and an unprece
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<p>How and why did the Western tradition of political theorizing arise in Athens during the late fifth and fourth centuries B.C.? By interweaving intellectual history with political philosophy and literary analysis, Josiah Ober argues that the tradition...
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<p><b>A powerful case for democracy and how it can adapt and survive¿if we want it to</b><br><br>Is democracy in trouble, perhaps even dying? Pundits say so, and polls show that most Americans believe that their country¿s...
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Part of a trilogy on religion in classical warfare which should become the standard work on the subject. This volume deals with Archaic and Classical Greece
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