| Description |
xii, 340 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
The monuments of Athens. Introduction the physical setting -- The prehistoric period . Paleolithic and neolithic -- Early Bronze Age -- Middle Bronze Age -- Late Bronze Age -- Early and Archaic Athens. The Dark Ages -- The Eighth and Seventh Centuries -- The sixth century -- Solon -- Peisistratos -- The Rise of democracy -- The Persian wars -- Classical Athens. Kimon -- Perikles -- The Parthenon -- The Propylaia -- The Temple of Athena Nike -- The Erechtheion -- The Lower city -- Attica -- The Peloponnesian war -- The fourth century -- Hellenistic Athens -- Roman Athens -- Late Roman Athens -- Site Summaries. Athens -- Acropolis -- Acropolis Slopes -- Agora -- Kerameikos -- Mouseion Hill, Pnyx, Areopagos -- Olympieion, Southeast Athens -- Attica. Acharnai -- Brauron -- East Coast: Steireia, Prasiai (Porto Raphti, Koroni, Perati) -- Eleusis -- Ikaria -- Marathon -- Peiraieus -- Phyle -- Rhamnous -- Sounion -- Thorikos -- West Coast: Euonymon, Aixone, Cape Zoster, Cave of Pan (Trachones, Glyphada, Vouliagmeni, Vari) -- Border areas. Eleutherai -- Oropos (Amphiareion) -- Salamis. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Greece -- Athens.
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Athens (Greece) -- Antiquities.
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Historic sites -- Greece -- Athens.
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| ISBN |
0300081979 |
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