The Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle possessed one of the most remarkable intellects of all time. He contributed to the body of knowledge in areas as diverse as logic and biology, ethics and physics, psychology and politics. Although his work 'The Politics' has been widely published, few versions have been as effective as this in placing his political commentary into the conext of his time. Certainly this contextualisation is this edition's greatest strength, and the feature which most clearly sets it apart from most other currently available translations.

'The Politics' remains an essential feature in the literature of politics and philosophy. Whether the reader is a first year political science student or a senior lecturer seeking to replace that well-worn second (or third) copy of an earlier edition, the particular book will be the ideal choice.

One of my Classical Studies degree modules is on the Athenian Empire and is taught by P. J. Rhodes. As such, his book was an essential purchase. Although short, it provides a very useful bibliography and is THE reference tool for the course, since it can also be used as an aid to looking up sources and ideas quoted in Prof. Rhodes' lectures.

At the age of seven Spartan boys were sent to military school.They did reading and writing,but most of the time they were taught about survival,and handeling weapons.Spartan girls were taught how to stay healthy,and stay strong.

This book is an attempt to produce a coherent narrative political history of Hellenistic Athens out of the existing literary, and, above all, epigraphical evidence, as it intends to funcition as an updating of the earlier study on the subject matter by W.S. Ferguson, _Hellenistic Athens_. The author seems to use the evidence soundly, as there are no attempts to prove too much on a flimsy foundations. The account that emerges is well-reasoned and coherent. However, there is no historical interpretation for the depressing history of the transformation of the Classical Democratic Athens into the "subject state with paltry politics"(Finley) of the Hellenistic Age. To that, one must search for the works by M.I. Finley (Politics in the Ancient World) and G.E.M. de Ste Croix(The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World), or then Paul Veyne's _Bread and Circus_(Le Pain et le Cirque), if one wants a non-_marxistisant_ interpretation .

In the ongoing dispute over how much Hellenistic thought and society influenced Talmudic Judaism, this is yet another contribution from the side that lends weight to Hellenistic influence. Shavit acknowledges that the Talmud was not quick to adopt Greek words and mythological motifs, but argues that the influence of Greece and Rome were considerable nonetheless. The main task of the Talmudic sages was to reinterpret the Torah in light of changing social and economic conditions, conditions that were powerfully influenced by Greece and Rome. Shavit's contribution will not settle the dispute, but his is a useful addition to the burgeoning literature on the subject.

This book is so pertinent for those people who are going to Athens, the capital of Greece. It is much more comprehensive about the city than the Blue Guide to Greece, which is great if you plan to stay in the city for awhile. Its commentaries are easy to read and understand and give you a full view of what to expect. Get it if you can.

Thirteen articles/monographs, including three in Greek (with one-page English language summaries), wrestle with the question, how should the music in pre-1800s Byzantine chant manuscripts be understood today?

Western musicologists from the 1920s through at least the 1970s assumed that the early-1800s reform of Byzantine chant notation reflected a revolutionary change in the musical content of Byzantine chant: they wrote and taught that the music chanted in today's Greek Orthodox churches is fundamentally different from the music chanted in the Orthodox churches of the "Byzantine" Empire.

This view was vigorously resisted by most people with personal experience with today's Greek Orthodoxy, but few of those Western musicologists had such experience with Greek Orthodoxy. In the 1960s and 1970s, some Greek Orthodox scholars began to emerge with the Western academic credentials needed to get a hearing in those forums, and they began to publish papers in Western journals presenting the other point of view: that most differences between today's Greek Orthodox chant and that of earlier centuries are evolutionary, not revolutionary.

In this collection of papers presented in Athens in 1993, some two decades later, we see papers from many of today's leading spokesmen for the continuity of Greek Orthodoxy's musical heritage: George Th. Stathis, Ioannis Arvanitis, Lycourgous Ant. Angelopoulis, Jorgen Raasted, and Christian Toelsgard are among the thirteen authors represented here.

This volume offers a fascinating look at some of the recent scholarship in this field.

My students have enjoyed this book over the years as an optional book in ancient history courses; it is the starting place for anyone interested in childhood or education in the period.

This book was good and very useful for research but a trite hard to understand. Overall I found it worth the read, and it has a very nice calendar of the festivals of Athens.

This is a very elaborate book about arcitecture and how it relates to todays society. The models are great!