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The rise of Athens : the story of the world's greatest civilization / Anthony Everitt.

by Everitt, Anthony.

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Random House, c2016.

Athens (Greece) -- History.

Athens (Greece) -- Guidebooks.

Athens (Greece) -- Civilization.

Greece -- Athens.

xxxiii, 540 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [477]-522) and index.

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".

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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