Article: The School of History: Athens in the Age of Socrates.(Book Review)

The School of History: Athens in the Age of Socrates, by Mark Henderson Munn. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 2000. xii, 525 pp. $37.50 U.S. (cloth), $24.95 U.S. (paper).

The School of History undertakes two complementary if not altogether compatible projects. The first is a general political and constitutional history of Athens in the years 415-395, with a focus on how Athens' varying fortunes during the latter part of Peloponnesian War and its immediate aftermath played themselves out in the political arena. The second is a more ambitious case for the increasing reliance on documentary evidence and acknowledged "experts" in the later fifth ...

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