Synopses & Reviews
Six Athenian writers, known collectively as the Atthitographers, wrote histories of Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, and were the source for later surviving historians such as Plutarch and Diodorus. Their writings reveal an invaluable wealth of information about early Athenian history and legend, its religion, customs and anecdotes. Translating the surviving fragments of these historians' works into English for the very first time, Philip Harding reproduces a remarkably vivid and detailed history of Athens with the aid of linking text and detailed annotation. This book will be an essential resource for anyone studying Athens' history.
Synopsis
A leading authority in the field, Phillip Harding presents the very first English translations of the six Athenian writers known as the Atthidographers.
In his vivid and detailed history, Harding examines the remaining fragments of these historical writers' work ? in chronological order ? and how these writings, dating from the fifth and fourth century BC, reveal an invaluable wealth of information about early Athenian history, legend, religion, customs and anecdotes.
Harding also goes on to study how these histories of Athens and its people were the source for later surviving historians such as Plutarch and Diodorus.
With the aid of linking text and detailed annotation, anyone with an interest in Athenian history, classical Greece need look no further.