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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Folio book. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. Book is like new but box has some foxing. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Plato was born around 427 BC and died some eighty years later in 347 BC. (From now on nearly all dates will be BC and only AD dates will be picked out as such.) His life occupied the second half of the golden age of Greece which ran from about 500 to 338. In that year the battle of Chaeronea enabled Alexander the Great’s father who was killed a year later to bring Athens and the other city-states of Greece into the Macedonian empire. The start of the golden age is not so precisely datable. From an Athenian point of view it begins in 508 when the ruling tyrants the Peisistratids were expelled and democracy or something recognisably like it was installed. For Greece as a whole the crucial years are 490 and the battle of Marathon the first major defeat inflicted on the Persians and 480 the year of the battle of Salamis which put a conclusive stop to their project of taking over mainland Greece. The century and a half from then to the battle of Chaeronea was a period of political disaster and cultural triumph. After the external menace of Persia had been repelled the cities of Greece embarked on intermittent and increasingly violent warfare among themselves which ended in a loss of inde pendence that lasted for over two thousand years. (SP)