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The Athenian Citizen (Agora Picture Book 4)

by Mabel Lang

The Agora was the civic center of Classical Athens and, through studying materials found there, much can be learnt about the origins of the world's first and possibly most representative democracy. The author discusses many aspects of administration, from the standardization of weights and measures (represented by the standard mold for tiles in the center of the Agora) to the ingenious workings of the Klepsydra, the water clock which regulated a public speaker's time. Many of the buildings and devices she discusses are still on display on site and in the museum. This new edition is updated and revised with new color plates. 32 pp (Excavations of the Athenian Agora, Picture Book 4, ASCSA, 1987, new ed. 2004)

ISBN-13: 978-0-87661-642-0
ISBN-10: 0-87661-642-2

Paperback. Price US $4.95

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Review Quote

Camp's new edition of this little gem improves on Mabel Lang's simple but superb 1987 original[...]The illustrations, now mostly in color, with crisp resolution and almost no glare, are a most welcome improvement. Camp offers appropriate new additions, substitutions, and in some cases, a reordering or recasting of Lang's original images. These changes make the text more memorable and the illustrations more vital to the book as a whole[...]

This slim volume is thus well-worth including as required reading for almost any introductory undergraduate course to Greek civilization, as this reviewer intends to do at Bucknell University. The book will likewise be attractive to the interested layperson as a brief and general introduction to some of the most important issues of Athenian political life. In short, this little volume is everything an Agora Picture Book should be: concise but informative, easy to read (and to carry), and, now, pretty.

Read the full review at the BMCR website: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2005/2005-08-12.html

Stephanie Larson, Bucknell University
The Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2005.08.12)

Biographical note

Mabel Lang is Professor Emerita at Bryn Mawr College. John McK. Camp II has been director of excavations in the Athenian Agora for over 10 years and is also Professor of Classics at Randolph-Macon College.


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