Displaying 1 of 1 2016 Format: Book Author: Everitt, Anthony, author. Title: The rise of Athens : the story of the world's greatest civilization / Anthony Everitt. Edition: First edition. Publisher, Date: New York : Random House, [2016] ©2016 Description: xxxiii, 540 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm Summary: "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"-- Amazon.com. Subjects: Athens (Greece) -- History. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [477]-522) and index. Contents: 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". LCCN: 2016014843 ISBN: 9780812994582 0812994582 Other Number: 944933724 System Availability: 2 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 2 Control Number: 626221 # Local items in: 2 # System items in: 2 Call Number: 938.5 Everitt Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
