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220 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780860919117
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Verso
Publication date: 17 July 1989
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The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labor. Wood argues that...
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220 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780860919117
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Verso
Publication date: 17 July 1989
Description
The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labor. Wood argues that...