| Description |
xxi, 362 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-346) and index. |
| Contents |
The festival at ancient Olympia -- Nineteenth-century Athens and the 1896 Olympics -- Athens in prehistory -- Archaic Athens -- Solon: poet and statesman -- The Peisistratid renaissance and the Athenian revolution -- The Persian wars -- Cold war, empire, and democracy -- Periklean Athens -- Religion -- Drama -- Education: the Sophists and Sokrates -- Indoor life: sex, symposia, and sandals -- |
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Work, money, and taxes -- The agora, women, and slaves -- Open warfare -- The Arkhidamian War -- The tipping of the scales -- Defeat and civil war -- Athens in the fourth century -- Hellenistic Athens -- The coming of the Romans -- Athens under Byzantion -- Athens under the Franks -- Ottoman Athens and Elgin's marbles -- Byron and the War of Independence -- The 2004 Olympics -- Envoi. |
| Subject |
Athens (Greece) -- History.
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| ISBN |
046509063X |
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9780465090631 |
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