The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece by Kurt Raaflaub

The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece

Kurt Raaflaub with Renate Franciscono (Translator)

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To find out, Raaflaub analyses ancient Greek texts from Homer to Thucydides in their social and political contexts. Archaic Greece, he concludes, had little use for the idea of political freedom; the concept arose instead during the great confron...

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