Davies has produced a perceptive, readable narrative, filled with
sensible insights and enriched with a generous and judicious
selection of quotations from sources… [He] skillfully interweaves
social and cultural history with political and military matters.
Students—and some historians—will benefit from his deft exegesis of
texts (inscriptions, plays, philosophic pieces, anecdotes) and his
cautionary reminders of what we do not know about the past… All in
all, this is the best short history of Greece on the market.
*The Historian [UK]*
[Democracy and Classical Greece] manages in brief compass to convey
through quotation the nature of the main sources and critically to
assess their limitations, biases and restricted concerns, and seeks
constantly not to be bound by these limitations in the attempt to
tease out underlying patterns of development and explanation…
Constant stimulation…fresh thought.
*History Today*
Together these five compact volumes [Early Greece by Oswyn Murray,
Democracy and Classical Greece by J. K. Davies, The Hellenistic
World by F. W. Walbank, The Roman Republic by Michael Crawford, and
The Roman Empire by Colin Wells, in addition to the newly published
The Later Roman Empire by Averil Cameron] cover much of the history
of the classical world, and do so with both ease and authority… For
this new series they have been revised or otherwise brought up to
date.
*Washington Post Book World*
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