University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: The Greek Polis Volume 1
(Book #1 in the University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization Series)
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Book Overview
The University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization (nine volumes) makes available to students and teachers a unique selection of primary documents, many in new translations. These readings, prepared for the highly praised Western civilization sequence at the University of Chicago, were chosen by an outstanding group of scholars whose experience teaching that course spans almost four decades. Each volume includes rarely anthologized selections as well as standard, more familiar texts; a bibliography of recommended parallel readings; and introductions providing background for the selections. Beginning with Periclean Athens and concluding with twentieth-century Europe, these source materials enable teachers and students to explore a variety of critical approaches to important events and themes in Western history. Individual volumes provide essential background reading for courses covering specific eras and periods. The complete nine-volume series is ideal for general courses in history and Western civilization sequences.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226069354
ISBN13:9780226069357
Release Date:June 1986
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:360 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.8" x 9.3"
Customer Reviews
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A good set of readings about the Greek city states
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
Not everything in Athens was by a vote, they also cast lots for city jobs. The law and customs are given in reading from classic texts and poems. The idea of a citizen having "rights" in the running of the city-state goes back to Athens. Before in ancient that ordinary people pretty much had the right to pay taxes and serve in the military, except in smaller villages that had some representation or elective leadership? That Greek society was as successful as it was made the Roman model their system partly on it. We got the ideas of democracy and representation from an English distortion of these classic laws. Like most texts of this sort the reading is really pretty dull compared to a novel or a history, but it shows that the rule of law had begun in Ancient Greece.
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