The Greek Commonwealth: Politics and Economics in Fifth-Century Athens (The Modern Library, No. 207)

xi, 487 pp. ...a vivid account of Athens during its Golden Age--the time of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes, of Pericles and Themistocles, of Herodotus and Thucydides, of Socrates and Protagoras. It was a time, too, in which art and architecture reached unsurpassed heights: the time of the Parthenon and Acropolis.--jacket