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An edition of The rise of Athens (2016)

The rise of Athens

the story of the world's greatest civilization

First edition.

by

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"A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history's most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian"--

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English
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540

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Subjects
History, Athens (greece), history, Athens (greece), social life and customs
Places
Athens (Greece)

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Table of Contents

How to be Greek
Three's company. National hero ; State of war ; The Persian mule
The invention of democracy. The shaking-off ; A friend of the poor ; Charioteers of the soul ; Inventing democracy
The Persian threat. Eastern raiders ; Fox as hedgehog ; Invasion ; "The acts of idiots" ; "O divine Salamis"
The empire builders. League of Nations ; The falling out ; The kindly ones ; "Crowned with violets"
The Great War. The prisoners on the island ; The man who knew nothing ; Downfall ; The end of democracy?
A long farewell. Sparta's turn ; Chaeronea : "fatal to liberty" ; Afterword : "a God-forsaken hole".

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages [477]-522) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
938/.5
Library of Congress
DF285 .E94 2016, DF285.E94 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxiii, 540 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
540

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27225882M
Internet Archive
riseofathensstor0000ever
ISBN 10
0812994582
ISBN 13
9780812994582
LCCN
2016014843
OCLC/WorldCat
944933724
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B01CWZGAFO

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