Athens : its rise and fall : with views of the literature, philosophy, and social life of the Athenian people

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Athens : its rise and fall : with views of the literature, philosophy, and social life of the Athenian people

Edward Bulwer Lytton ; edited by Oswyn Murray

Routledge, 2004

bicentenary ed.

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Athens: Its Rise and Fall, originally published in 1837, is the most important and readable of the Victorian histories of ancient Greece. It stands alongside Macauley and Carlyle as a great historical work of British Romanticism, and anticipates the thinking of George Grote and John Stuart Mill on Greek history by over a decade. Originally published in two volumes, this new one-volume edition includes the text of the never-before published 'third volume' on which he was working at the time of his death, recently rediscovered by Oxford academic Oswyn Murray. An absolute must for any scholar of ancient Greece.

Table of Contents

Introduction Book I: From the Earliest Period to the Legislation of Solon to BC 594 Book II: From the Legislation of Solon to the Battle of Marathon, BC 594-490 Book III: From the Battle of Marathon to the Battles of Plataea and Mycale, BC 490-BC 479 Book IV: From the End of the Persian Invasion to the Death of Cimon, BC 479-BC 449 Book V: From the Death of Cimon, BC 449, to the death of Pericles, in the third year of the Peloponnesian War, BC 429 Book VI: (a fragment) From the Start of the Peloponnesian War to the Battle of Delium, BC 432/1-BC 424/3 Bibiography of Works Cited by the Author Index

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  • NCID
    BA66634503
  • ISBN
    • 0415320879
  • LCCN
    2003061165
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xviii, 610 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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