THE POPULATION OF ANCIENT ATHENS IN THE FIFTH AND FOURTH CENTURIES B.C.

Top of textblock has dustsoiling. Sticker with author's name attached to backstrip, else Minor shelfwear.; Unchanged reprint of 1933 Edition. Looks at the population of Athens in order to answer some fundamental questions as: How was the population distributed? How did it fluctuate? What was the net loss due to the Peloponnesian War? Did the population increase again during the fourth century, between 400 and 322, and how quickly did it decline after that? If the assertion of the oligarchs in 411 that no more than 5000 ever attended the ecclesia, what proportion was that of the whole number?; Glasgow University Publications XXVIII; 87 pages.