Author: JEFFERY, L. H.
Title: Archaic Greece the City-States, C. 700-500 B.C.
Description: Ernest Benn Limited, 1976. Hardcover. ISBN: 0510032710. Book has minor shelfwear and rubbing to boards. One minor bump to top corner. Dustjacket has edgewear with chipping and tears. DJ is price-clipped. One long tear along top of front panel has been repaired by tape else Good. ; After describing in her opening chapters the typical polis, its home government and colonial expansion, and she gives some account of each city-state in Mainland Greece, the Aegean, and the coast of Asia Minor. In detailing its history and local culture, as well as events which had great impact on the period-- the reforms of Solon, the expulsion of tyrants--she seeks to show how each contributed to the structure of Greek society as a whole. We leave it at the end of the sixth century, a country still criss-crossed with local frontiers, but poised now for the defeat of Persia and the Persians. ; 272 pages. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket .

Keywords: 0510032710 Greece Political Science Social Sciences Greek History Classical Greek & Roman City-states Political Science Persian Empire Persian War


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