Josiah Ober ”The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece’

Josiah Ober will be joining us to discuss his book ‘The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece’.

In ‘The Rise and Fall of Classic Greece’ Josiah Ober offers a major new history of classical Greece and an unprecedented account of its rise and fall. Why did Greece reach such heights in the classical period- and why only then? And how, after “the Greek miracle” had endured for centuries, did the Macedonians defeat the Greeks, seemingly bringing an end to their glory?