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100 1 $aScott, Michael,$d1981-$eauthor.
245 10 $aFrom democrats to kings :$bthe brutal dawn of a new world from the downfall of Athens to the rise of Alexander the Great /$cMichael Scott.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bOverlook Press,$c2010.
264 4 $c©2009
300 $axvii, 294 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (chiefly color), maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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500 $aOriginally published: London : Icon, 2009.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: one man's dream -- Flute players and pick axes -- The city of (crass) long-haired warriors -- Dancing with the Persian king -- 'Serious business for tomorrow' -- The vegetarian philosopher and the body-building philanthropist -- The slippery fish -- The clash of philosopher and tyrant -- The implosion of Greece -- The cow's bladder, the love curse and the caricature -- Ten years that changed the ancient world: 362-352 BC -- Survival strategies -- Saviour or tyrant? -- The final showdown -- From father to son -- Ruling the ancient world -- You've never had it so good -- A new world -- Epilogue: from democrats to kings.
520 $aExplores how ancient Greece went from a democratic city-state to an monarchical empire, in a book that also looks on parallel issues in the twenty-first century, when war-time and peace-time have become indistinguishable.
651 0 $aGreece$xHistory$ySpartan and Theban Supremacies, 404-362 B.C.
651 0 $aGreece$xHistory$yMacedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C.
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647 7 $aMacedonian Expansion$c(Greece :$d359-323 B.C.)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01353599
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655 4 $aNonfiction.
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