The rise of Athens : the story of the world's greatest civilization /
Everitt, Anthony,
The rise of Athens : the story of the world's greatest civilization / Anthony Everitt. - First edition. - xxxiii, 540 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: how to be Greek -- National hero -- State of war -- The Persian mule -- The shaking-off -- A friend of the poor -- Charioteers of the soul -- Inventing democracy -- Eastern raiders -- Fox as hedgehog -- Invasion -- "The acts of idiots" -- "O divine Salamis" -- League of Nations -- The falling out -- The kindly ones -- "Crowned with violets" -- The prisoners on the island -- The man who knew nothing -- Downfall -- The end of democracy? -- Sparta's turn -- Chaeronea: "fatal to liberty" -- Afterword: "a God-forsaken hole".
9780812994582
2016014843
Athens (Greece)--History.
DF285 / .E94 2016
938/.5
The rise of Athens : the story of the world's greatest civilization / Anthony Everitt. - First edition. - xxxiii, 540 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: how to be Greek -- National hero -- State of war -- The Persian mule -- The shaking-off -- A friend of the poor -- Charioteers of the soul -- Inventing democracy -- Eastern raiders -- Fox as hedgehog -- Invasion -- "The acts of idiots" -- "O divine Salamis" -- League of Nations -- The falling out -- The kindly ones -- "Crowned with violets" -- The prisoners on the island -- The man who knew nothing -- Downfall -- The end of democracy? -- Sparta's turn -- Chaeronea: "fatal to liberty" -- Afterword: "a God-forsaken hole".
9780812994582
2016014843
Athens (Greece)--History.
DF285 / .E94 2016
938/.5