Athenian Agora: Excavations in the Heart of Classical Athens (New Aspects of Antiquity) - Softcover

Camp, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500276838 ISBN 13: 9780500276839

Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 1992

Synopsis

The great public square known as the Agora was the living heart of ancient Athens, where citizens met formally to administer civic affairs, and informally to trade or discuss politics or to take part in religious processions and athletic displays. In the fifth and fourth centuries B.C., the Agora was the scene of some of the finest political, philosophical, and artistic achievements in the first flowering of Western civilization. John M. Camp brings together the results of sixty years' work by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Drawing on the wealth of excavated evidence, richly supplemented by literary and inscriptional references, Professor Camp tells the story of the Agora from Neolithic to medieval times.

About this title

About the Author:

John McK. Camp II is Director of Excavations at the Athenian Agora and Professor of Classics at Randolph-Macon College in Virginia. Craig A. Mauzy is Manager of the Excavations at the Athenian Agora.

Review:

Rare indeed is the book that one could not have wished better done. . . . Readers at every level can count themselves lucky to have so riveting an account of the physical focal point of Western culture. -- Peter Green, Choice

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0500276838
• ISBN 13: 9780500276839
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232