The Cambridge Ancient History: The Fifth Century B.C.

Book Overview

Volume V of the new edition of The Cambridge Ancient History encompasses the first Classic age of European civilization--the fifth century BC. This was the first and last period before the Romans in which great political and military power was located in the same place as cultural importance. This volume, therefore, is more narrowly focused geographically than its predecessors and successors, and hardly strays beyond Greece. Athens is at the center...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052123347X
• ISBN13: 9780521233477
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 603 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.5" x 7.0" x 11.8"