The rise of Athens : the story of the world's greatest civilization / Anthony Everitt.
Publisher: New York : Random House, [2016]Edition: First editionDescription: xxxiii, 540 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780812994582
- 938/.5 23
- DF285 .E94 2016
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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".
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