The Age of Pericles

By Don Nardo

A history of ancient Greece during the height of Athens' power. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560063033
• ISBN13: 9781560063032
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Lucent Books
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.8" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Excellent Work

A very well written synopsis of the era of Athenian supremacy in fifth-century B.C. Greece. Most books I have seen for young people (as well as quite a few for adults) deal mainly with the cultural aspects of the age (e.g. the Parthenon, Athenian playwrights, etc.), whereas this volume also deals in surprising detail and insight with the politcal and military events of the period, including the ongoing rivalry between Athens and Sparta, and carefully traces the roots as well as the consequences of that rivalry. Nardo must be commended for a successful attempt to educate young readers about a pivotal period in Western history, one in which arrogance, an imperialistic mentality, and miscalculation helped to destroy the world's first democracy. Adults, excluding scholars of of course, will benefit from the book, too.