The Rise Of Athens by Anthony Everitt
The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization
A readable narrative history tracing Athens’s transformation from a modest city-state into the dominant power of classical Greece, recounting political reforms that birthed Athenian democracy, the rise of naval power and victory in the Persian Wars, the cultural flowering under Pericles, and the hubris and decline brought by the Peloponnesian War. It interweaves biographies of key figures and the evolution of institutions with military and diplomatic events, showing how leadership, civic structures, art, drama, and philosophy combined to create an extraordinary civic experiment. The account explains both the city’s achievements and the internal contradictions and external pressures that ultimately undermined its hegemony.
- Published
- 2012
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- British
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- Original Language
- English
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