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Athens: A Portrait of the City in Its Golden Age

Door Christian Meier

Categorie
Klassieke Oudheid
Boeknummer
#350898-ZB11
Titel
Athens: A Portrait of the City in Its Golden Age
Auteur
Meier, Christian
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Pimlico
Jaar van uitgave
2000
ISBN10
0712664556
ISBN13
9780712664554
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
paperback, some illustrations in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
A lively and accessible history of Athens's rise to greatness, from one of the foremost classical historians.
The definitive account of Athens in the age of Pericles, Christian Meier's gripping study begins with the Greek triumph over Persia at the Battle of Salamis, one of the most significant military victories in history. Meier shows how that victory decisively established Athens's military dominance in the Mediterranean and made possible its rise to preeminence in almost every field of human eavor--commerce, science, philosophy, art, architecture, and literature. Within seventy-five years, Athens had become the most original and innovative civilization the ancient world ever produced.
With elegant narrative style, Meier traces the birth of democracy and the flourishing of Greek cultu... (Lees verder)re in the fifth century B. C., as well as Athens' slow decline and defeat in the Peloponnesian War. The great figures--from politicians and generals like Themistocles and Alcibiades to the philosophers Socrates and Plato--emerge as flesh-and-blood human beings, firmly rooted in their times and places. This is history in the tradition of Simon Schama and Barbara Tuchman--learned, accessible, and beautifully written.
Pagina's
628
Conditie
Goed — Top edge slightly frayed.
Prijs
€ 12,50

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