Project Gutenberg 2024-06-07 Public domain in the USA. 386 Harrison, Jane Ellen 1850 1928 06024923 Primitive Athens as described by Thucydides $aCambridge :$bUniversity Press, $c1906. deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Primitive Athens as described by Thucydides" by Jane Ellen Harrison is a historical account written in the early 20th century. This work critically examines the ancient city of Athens as articulated by the historian Thucydides, particularly focusing on its character and limits prior to the unification under Theseus. Through an analysis supported by archaeological evidence and literary interpretations, Harrison seeks to illuminate the smaller, more primitive Athens that preceded its later grandeur. At the start of the book, Harrison provides a preface explaining her motivations for writing this work, particularly her desire to counter the prevailing interpretations of Thucydides’ accounts that she believes do not align with contemporary archaeological findings. She suggests that Thucydides describes an Athens that consisted primarily of the Acropolis and a few surrounding areas, highlighting the distinction between the early scattered communities and the larger city that would develop later. The opening introduces the concept of “citadel communities” or “burghs,” which were at the heart of ancient Athenian life before the transformative Synoikismos led by Theseus, asserting the book's intent to establish a clearer vision of Athens' early history and its significance. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/b29012594 20220526084958harrison 1906 GB Reading ease score: 69.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Athens (Greece) -- Description and travel Athens (Greece) -- Antiquities DF Text Category: History - Ancient Category: Archaeology & Anthropology 571990 2025-09-29T07:53:11.549383 text/html 522688 2024-06-07T18:52:33 text/html 4862355 2025-09-29T07:53:23.937298 application/epub+zip 4870286 2025-09-29T07:53:14.626345 application/epub+zip 283616 2025-09-29T07:53:12.682335 application/epub+zip 5392025 2025-09-29T07:53:29.180326 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 5353361 2025-09-29T07:53:22.057321 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 399969 2025-09-29T07:53:09.474353 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 380010 2024-06-07T18:52:33 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16130 2025-09-29T07:53:29.334255 application/rdf+xml 7433 2025-09-29T07:53:13.006333 image/jpeg 1606 2025-09-29T07:53:12.843340 image/jpeg 5338671 2025-09-29T07:53:11.724353 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia