Primitive Athens As Described by Thucydides - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0890051046 ISBN 13 : 9780890051047

Synopsis

Book by Jane Ellen Harrison

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Mythology and Monuments of Ancient A thens has been for some time out of print. I have decided to issue no second edition. A word of explanation is therefore needed as to the purport of the present pages. Since my book on A thens was published Dr Frazer sgreat commentary on Pausanias has appeared, and for scholars has made a second edition, so far as my book was a commentary on Pausanias, superfluous. The need for a popular handbook has been met by Professor Ernest Gardner s Ancient A thens. It happens however that, on a question cardinal for the understanding of the early history of A thens, I hold views diametrically opposed to both bhese writers. These views I have felt bound to state. This cardinal question is the interpretation of an account given by Thucydides of the character aud limits of ancient A thens,. Both Dr Frazer and Professor Ernest Gardner hold by an interpretation which though almost universally prevalent down to recent times has been, in my opinion, disproved by the recent excavations of the German Archaeological Institute at A thens and the explanation of their results by Professor Dorpfeld. An adequate examination of the new theory could perhaps hardly be expected in such a book as Professor Gardner s, and it will not be found there. Dr Frazer, it is needless to say, stated Professor Dorpfeld sview with fulness and fairness, so far as was then possible or consistent with his main purpose.
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Détails de l'édition

• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0890051046
• ISBN 13: 9780890051047
• Reliure: Relié
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