Athens : city of wisdom /
"Even on the most smog-bound of days, the rocky outcrop on which the Acropolis stands is visible above the sprawling roof-scape of the Greek capital. Athens presents one of the most recognizable and symbolically potent panoramas of any of the world's cities: the pillars and pediments of th...
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New York :
Pegasus Books,
2022.
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| Edition: | First Pegasus Books cloth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The beginnings of greatness, 600-600 BCE
- Victories of brilliance, 500-480 BCE
- Golden years, 479-432 BCE
- Pride and a fall, 432-421 BCE
- A blazing twilight, 421-405 BCE
- A chastend democracy, 405-362 BCE
- A dance of death with Macedonia, 362-239 BCE
- Other people's empires, 239 BCE-137 CE
- Polytheists and barbarians, 138-560 CE
- A Christian millenium
- Latin and Greek: the late Middle Ages, 1216-1460
- Before and after the bombardment, 1460-1700
- Stones of contention, 1697-1820
- A poet dreams on a rock, 1809-33
- Hellenism and its expanding hub, 1833-96
- Racing to war, 1896-1919
- Of loss and consolidations, 1919-36
- The darkest decade, 1940-50
- A wedding and four funerals, 1960-2000
- Pride, a fall and an open future, 2000-18
- And Greece travels onwards.