Must-Have The Cambridge Ancient History: Volume 5, The Fifth Century BC, Part 0 2nd Edition. – LEWIS, D. M. and BOARDMAN, J. and DAVIES, J. K.,

The fifth century BC was not only the first Classic age of European civilisation. It was the first and last period before the Romans in which great political and military power was located in the same place as cultural importance. This volume therefore is more narrowly focused geographically than its predecessors and successors, and hardly strays beyond Greece. Athens is at the centre of the picture, both politically and culturally, but events and achievements elsewhere are assessed as carefully as the natu…