The rise of Athens
Subtitle: the story of the world's greatest civilization
By: Anthony Everitt
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9780812994582
Subjects: History
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [477]-522) and index.
Table of contents: title: How to be Greek; title: Three's company. National hero ; State of war ; The Persian mule; title: The invention of democracy. The shaking-off ; A friend of the poor ; Charioteers of the soul ; Inventing democracy; title: The Persian threat. Eastern raiders ; Fox as hedgehog ; Invasion ; "The acts of idiots" ; "O divine Salamis"; title: The empire builders. League of Nations ; The falling out ; The kindly ones ; "Crowned with violets"; title: The Great War. The prisoners on the island ; The man who knew nothing ; Downfall ; The end of democracy?; title: A long farewell. Sparta's turn ; Chaeronea : "fatal to liberty" ; Afterword : "a God-forsaken hole".