Fathers and Sons in Athens: Ideology and Society in the Era of the Peloponnesian War

by Barry Strauss (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  1993

  $159.32

  As history's first democracy, classical Athens invited political discourse. The Athenians, however could not completely separate the politicals from the private sphere; indeed father-son conflict, from patricide to murdering one's son, was a major public as well as a private theme. In a fascinating historical reappraisal, the author explores the consequences, for Athens and us, of the powerful influence of familial ideology on politics.