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050	0	0	_aDF921 _b.W37 2004
082	0	0	_a949.5 _222 _bW325A
100	1		_aWaterfield, Robin, _d1952-
245	1	0	_aAthens : _ba history : from ancient ideal to modern city / _cRobin Waterfield
264		1	_aNew York : _bBasic Books, _c[2004]
264		4	_c©2004
300			_axxi, 362 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, maps ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 343-346) and index
505	0		_aThe 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
505	0		_aWork, 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
520	1		_a"Beginning with the classical period, when it reached its pinnacle of power and cultural genius, Athens: A History is peopled with fascinating individuals. Athens' remarkable ascent had been inspired by the ideals embodied in the ancient Olympic games, but the city deliberately turned its back on those ideals, in Athens' stunning rise and rapid fall lies a timeless tragedy of excessive pride brought low. Contrasting its noble ideals and arrogant actions, Waterfield finds in Athens' story a moral for all time - and vital lessons for the current era." "From its heyday in the fifth century B.C., Athens: A History traces the city's transformations under the yoke of foreign empires - Macedonian, Roman, Byzantine, Frankish and Ottoman - and its revival as the capital of the newly independent nation of Greece. Today, it is a burgeoning European city, host of the 2004 Olympics and heir to a momentous historical and cultural legacy. From Pericles and Socrates to Lord Byron and Baron de Coubertin - founder of the modern Olympic games - this is a powerful, evocative history of a city whose glorious past continues to inspire the present."--Jacket
651		0	_aAthens (Greece) _xHistory
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628
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