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3.1 Athenian Political and Social Culture

Azoulay, V., Pericles of Athens (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010). 
An assessment of Pericles' life and how he has been assessed by later generations, focusing on the crucial question of what it is to be a leading man in a democracy.

Benson, E. F., The Life of Alcibiades: The Idol of Athens (Createspace, 2010).
The definitive and scholarly modern biography of Alcibiades. Highly readable. 

Buckley, T., Aspects of Greek History (2nd ed; Abingdon: Routledge, 2010).
A well sourced and clear account of the period: chapter 13 examines the reforms of Ephialtes and Pericles, chapter 14 looks at the structures of democracy.

Ehrenberg, Victor, From Solon to Socrates (Abingdon: Routledge, 2010).
A classic work. Chapters 4 to 7 provide good information for the student of Athenian democracy and society in the 6th and 5th centuries.

Harris, E. M., Democracy and the Rule of Law in Classical Athens (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Chapter 2 in Part 1 examines Pericles' praise of Athenian democracy in the funeral speech, with a particular reference to how it reflects on the Athenian legal system, and to how Athens is contrasted with Sparta.

Ober, J., The Athenian Revolution (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996).
Chapter 4 looks at how democracy in Athens emerged in 508/7 and the years thereafter.

Ober, J., Political Dissent in Democratic Athens (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998).
Ober assesses the ideas and aims of key ancient critics of democracy, including the Old Oligarch, Plato, Aristotle and Thucydides. Chapter 1 on the Old Oligarch and chapter 4 on Plato are especially useful.

Renshaw, J., In Search of the Greeks (London, Bloomsbury, 2015).
Chapter 6 has a clear and detailed overview of the origins and workings of democracy in ancient Athens. 

Rhodes, P. J., Athenian Democracy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004).
A short but thorough introduction to Athenian democracy, in five chapters.

Samons, L. J., (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Chapter 1 surveys democracy and empire, chapter 6 the role of slaves, foreigners and women in Periclean Athens, and chapter 10 with democratic theory and practice.

3.2 The Influence of New Thinking and Ideas on Athenian Society

Colaiaco, J. A., Socrates against Athens: Philosophy on Trial (Abingdon: Routledge, 2001).
A book which provides a helpful narrative commentary on Plato's Apology. 

Dillon, J., and T. L. Gergel, The Greek Sophists (London: Penguin, 2003).
Translations of all the fragments from Greek sophists, as well as the Encomium of Helen.

Gottlieb, A., The Dream of Reason (London: Penguin, 2003), chapters 7, 9, 10, 11.
A survey of the history of rational thought in the west, which begins with the early thinkers of ancient Greece. Chapters 7, 9, 10 and 11 deal respectively with Anaxagoras, the sophists, Socrates and Plato.

Guthrie, W. K. C., The Sophists (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971).
A key work for understanding the sophists and their interactions and relations with Socrates.

Hughes, Bettany, The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens, and the Search for the Good Life (London: Jonathan Cape, 2011).
A highly readable biography of Socrates for the general reader, with excellent source references. A very good reccomendation for a student interested in finding out more about Socrates.

Knox, Bernard, The Hippolytus of Euripides (New Haven: Yale Classical Studies, Vol. 8, 1952), pp. 3-31. Also published in Segal, E., (ed.), Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983).
A classic analysis of Euripides' play.

de Romilly, J., The Great Sophists in Periclean Athens (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992).

Samons, L. J. (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Chapter 9 is entitled 'Plato's Sophists, Intellectual History after 450, and Sokrates,' and so is ideal reading for this topic.

Wallace, R. W., 'The Sophists in Athens,' in D. Boedeker and K. A. Raaflaub, Democracy, Empire and the Arts in Fifth-Century Athens (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998).
A chapter which examines the sophists in the contect of Athenian democracy and empire.

Waterfield, Robin, Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths (London: Faber and Faber, 2010).
An accessible analysis of the trial and death of Socrates which tries to dispel simplistic myths which have surrounded it.

3.3 Art and Architecture and their Significance in the Culture of Athens

Beard, M., The Parthenon (London: Profile Books, 2010).
A very readable and scholarly book for the general reader about the history of the building.

Camp, J., The Archaeology of Athens (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004).
A detailed account from one of the foremost archaeologists of ancient Athens.

Hurwit, J., The Athenian Acropolis (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000).
A thorough and readable account of the development of the Acropolis and its religious significance for Athenians.

Jenkins, I., and I. Kerslake, The Parthenon Sculptures in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 2007)
A British Museum publication giving detailed information about those parts of the Parthenon sculptures in the museum.

Lapatin, K., 'Art and Architecture,' in L. J. Samons, The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
A very useful survey chapter on the art and architecture of Periclean Athens.

Rhodes, R. F., 'The Periclean Acropolis,' in M. M. Miles, A Companion to Greek Architecture (Chichester: Wiley, 2016).
An approachable guide to the Acropolis in the High Classical Period.

Rhodes, R. F., Architecture and Meaning on the Athenian Acropolis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
A book which focuses particularly on how the buildings and monuments on the Acropolis relate to one another as a holistic narrative.

Woodford, S., The Parthenon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).
A clear and concise introduction to the Parthenon.

3.4 Drama and Dramatic Festivals and their Significance in the Culture of Athens

Cartledge, P., Aristophanes and His Theatre of the Absurd (London: Bloomsbury, 1990).
An accessible introduction to Aristophanes in his wider context.

Csapo, E., and W. J. Slater, The Context of Ancient Drama (London; Ann Arbour: University of Michigan Press, 1995).
The definitive sourcebook for all elements of ancient theatre - a superb resource.

Goldhill, S., Reading Greek Tragedy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986).

MacDowell, D. M., Aristophanes and Athens: An Introduction to the Plays (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).
A classic study of the plays of Aristophanes, with chapters on each play.

Mills, Sophie, Euripides: Hippolytus (London: Bloomsbury, 2002).
An accessible and student-focused introduction to Hippolytus.

Sommerstein, A., Greek Drama and Dramatistiis (Abingdon: Routledge, 2002).
An introduction to Greek drama with studies of all the major Greek playwrights. It also contains a useful chronology.

Storey, I. C., and A. Allan, A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama (Chichester: Wiley, 2014).
A superb and detailed introduction to ancient Greek drama for students - perhaps the best book to reccomend for students as a starting point.

Swift, L., Greek Tragedy (London: Bloomsbury, 2016).
An introduction to the genre of tragedy and some of its major themes, accessible to school students.

Wiles, D., Greek Theatre Performance: An Introduction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
This introduction mainly focuses on the performance of Greek drama, and especially on the techniques used by actors.

Winkler, J. J., and F. Zeitlin, Nothing to Do with Dionysus?: Athenian Drama in Its Social Context (Princeton: Princeton University Press).
A set of diverse essays by scholars aiming to explore the social and political context of ancient Athenian drama. A definitive book in the field.

3.5 Religion and Its Significance in the Culture of Athens

Boedeker, D., 'Athenian Religion in the Age of Pericles,' in J. J. Samons, The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
A chapter which focuses on the role that religion played in Athens under Pericles.

Dowden, Ken, 'Olympian Gods, Olympian Pantheon,' in D. Ogden, A Companion to Greek Religion (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007).
A chapter which focuses on the nature and worship of the twelve Olympian gods.

Hornblower, S., 'The Religious Dimension to the Peloponnesian War, or, What Thucydides Does Not Tell Us' HSCP, Vol. 94 (1992), pp. 169-197.
A paper examining the religious aspects of the Peloponnesian War, which as so underplayed in Thycudides account. 

Lefkowitz, M., Greek Gods, Human Lives (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), chapters 5 and 6.

Mikalson, Jon, Ancient Greek Religion (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).
A superb survey of ancient Greek religion, which has excellent sections on the Panathenaea and the sanctuary at Sounion.

Neils, J., Goddess and the Polis (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993).
An outstanding book about the Athenian Panathenaea, with excellent visual resources.

Parker, R., On Greek Religion (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011).
A scholarly survey of Greek religion from a leading scholar in the field.

Parker, R., Polytheism and Society at Athens (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
A book from a leading scholar in the field about the role that religion played in Athenian Society.

Sourvinou-Inwood, C., Tragedy and Athenian Religion (Lanham, MD: Lexington Book, 2003).
A key work examining the relationship between Athenian tragedy and Athenian religion.