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From Solon to Socrates: Greek History and Civilization During the 6th and 5th Centuries BC

The dual purpose of this book is to describe the greatest period of Greek history in all its aspects, political and military as well as economic and cultural, and to take into account the uncertainties of modern scholarship.

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