Author: DE ROMILLY, JACQUELINE
Title: The Rise and Fall of Greek states According to Greek Authors
Description: Ann Arbor, Univ of Michigan Pr. 1991, Reprint. (ISBN: 0472081527) Soft cover. Book, [Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures] "The Rise and Fall of States According to Greek Authors is a masterful survey of the manner in which Greek historians, from Herodotus to Polybius, explained the conditions of a state's success and the dangers of power. Both the differences and the similarities among the major authors' ideas are carefully analyzed: the changing notions of excess, or hybris; the common stress on public morality; and the value of goodwill." 100p. Fine.

Keywords: 0472081527 Politics Greek City States Political Science Ancient P. Greece History Theory Greece - Ancient - Politics,Law and Government


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