The rise of Athens : the story of the world's greatest civilization /
"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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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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".