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Age of Pericles: Reading recommendations?
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    Posted: 17-Jul-2009 at 06:14
Hey everyone,

I'm having a devil of a time finding a good book on the Golden Age of Greece.  (I know, you'd think it wouldn't be that hard, right?)  I'd like a semi-readable book that covers the whole period, but I'm particularly interested in the Socrates / Plato / Aristotle...uh, I want to say triumvirate but that would be misleading given our context.  Those dudes.  Recent works are preferable.  I can handle fairly dry stuff; I'd sacrifice a gripping read for greater scholarship.

Thanks in advance!
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Sounds like you are asking for an exclusively philosophy book, I'm afrain I can't help. For a more general book I can recommend the Oxford History of the Classical World which cover Greece, the GHellenistic World and Rome, History, Culture, Art, Philosophy, Literature and so on.
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I am more of military history but have similar problems. I like to look at wikipedia in the Notes and references. It usually provides lots of interesting titles. 
And I was part of allempires.com since 2004 and not plan to join the splinter group you mention. 
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Posts: 76 		  Quote HistoryPoi Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20-Jul-2009 at 09:14
Here is a great book from amazon which was actually recommended by Cyrus to me a few years back on the forum. I used it for a Pericles unit at college - "Pericles: Ostracised Megalomaniac?"

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And a quick bio of the author, Michael Koronoikos
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I am leaving this post as a demonstration of the lack of maturity coming from the imitation AE site.
 
HistoryPoi is Knights, a moderator on the wannabe site.  They scream and stomp about cyrus' supposed "illegal activities" but yet they think nothing of spamming and trolling whenever they feel like it.  I just read a post on.net where this kind of nonsense is being encouraged by the Admins.
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