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The fifth century BC witnessed not only the emergence of one of the first democracies, but also the Persian and the Peloponnesian Wars. John Thorley provides a

This book constructs a distinctive view of classical Athens, a view which takes seriously the evidence of archaeology and of art history.

Studies all four branches of the Athenian armed forces to show how they helped make democratic Athens a superpower.

Biography of the Athenian politician whose reforms provided ordinary citizens with more equal say in the state formerly run only by the upper class.