The Story of Athens
Subtitle: A Record of the Life and Art of the City of the Violet Crown, Read in Its Ruins and in the Lives of Great Athenians
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: December 22, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9781421269719
Subjects: Athens,history,Record,Life,Art,City,Violet,Crown,Ruins,Great,Athenians,Butler; Antiques & Collectibles / Americana; History / Europe / General
First sentence: IN the most distant cycles of the past, long before men had begun to commit the record of their deeds to books or graven stones, in "the land of lost gods and godlike men," a sturdy, warlike tribe, one of those countless bands that were wandering over the wild, unsettled country on the north of the great sea, came to a fertile plain, inclosed between the mountains and the shore, and, finding a bare, rocky plateau rising from the midst of the plain, chose it for their abode.