Gabriel Herman is Professor of Ancient History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has held visiting fellowships at Churchill College, Cambridge, the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton and the Institute for Research in the Humanities, Madison, Wisconsin. He is the author of Ritualised Friendship and the Greek City (1987) and numerous articles on Greek social history. This book was awarded the Polonsky Prize by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2005.

'Professor Gabriel Herman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) has produced a rich plum-pudding of a book, far too rich to be consumed at a sitting, and one that will continue to yield great pleasure as well as much instruction for many years to come.' The Anglo-Hellenic Review

• 1. Moral precepts and society; 2. Athenian society and government; 3. The moral image of the Athenian democracy; 4. Representations and distortions; 5. The structure of conflicts; 6. Revenge and punishment; 7. The coercive power of the state; 8. Transformations of cruelty; 9. Interactions with the divine; 10. The growth of communal feeling.

Gabriel Herman is Professor of Ancient History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has held visiting fellowships at Churchill College, Cambridge, the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton and the Institute for Research in the Humanities, Madison, Wisconsin. He is the author of Ritualised Friendship and the Greek City (1987) and numerous articles on Greek social history. This book was awarded the Polonsky Prize by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2005.

'Professor Gabriel Herman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) has produced a rich plum-pudding of a book, far too rich to be consumed at a sitting, and one that will continue to yield great pleasure as well as much instruction for many years to come.' The Anglo-Hellenic Review

• 1. Moral precepts and society; 2. Athenian society and government; 3. The moral image of the Athenian democracy; 4. Representations and distortions; 5. The structure of conflicts; 6. Revenge and punishment; 7. The coercive power of the state; 8. Transformations of cruelty; 9. Interactions with the divine; 10. The growth of communal feeling.

Gabriel Herman is Professor of Ancient History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has held visiting fellowships at Churchill College, Cambridge, the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton and the Institute for Research in the Humanities, Madison, Wisconsin. He is the author of Ritualised Friendship and the Greek City (1987) and numerous articles on Greek social history. This book was awarded the Polonsky Prize by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2005.

'Professor Gabriel Herman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) has produced a rich plum-pudding of a book, far too rich to be consumed at a sitting, and one that will continue to yield great pleasure as well as much instruction for many years to come.' The Anglo-Hellenic Review

• 1. Moral precepts and society; 2. Athenian society and government; 3. The moral image of the Athenian democracy; 4. Representations and distortions; 5. The structure of conflicts; 6. Revenge and punishment; 7. The coercive power of the state; 8. Transformations of cruelty; 9. Interactions with the divine; 10. The growth of communal feeling.