The art of classical Greece, and its political and philosophical ideas, have had a profound influence on Western civilization. It was in the fifth and fourth centuries BC that this Greek culture-material, political and intellectual-reached its zenith. At the same time, the Greek states were at their most powerful and quarrelsome. J. K. Davies traces the flowering of this extraordinary society, drawing on a wealth of documentary material: houses and graves, extant sculpture and vases, as well as the writings of historians, orators, biographers, dramatists, and philosophers.
- ISBN10 0674196074
- ISBN13 9780674196070
- Publish Date 1 January 1993
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 328
- Language English