City-State Civism in Ancient Athens: Its Real and Ideal Expressions

by Thomas L. Dynneson

This book focuses on the development of civism as it contributed to ancient Greek culture, and helped shape the psychology of citizenship in the Western world. The strength of this work is its interdisciplinary examination of those trends and influences that combined to give new insights into the rise and the fall of democracy in the ancient polis of Athens. The author presents an extensive description of the intellectual forces that attracted international...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433103117
• ISBN13: 9781433103117
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"