| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiii, 540 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps. |
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text file rda |
| Bibliography |
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". |
| 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Athens (Greece) -- History.
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HISTORY / Ancient / Greece. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Everitt, Anthony. Rise of Athens. First edition. New York : Random House, [2016] 9780812994582 (DLC) 2016014843 (OCoLC)944933724 |
| ISBN |
9780812994599 (electronic bk.) |
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0812994590 (electronic bk.) |
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9780812994582 |
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0812994582 |
| Music No. |
EB00665896 Recorded Books |
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