Author: STONEMAN, RICHARD
Title: A Traveller's History of Athens
Description: Northampton, MA. Interlink Books. 2004, 1st.US Edition. (ISBN: 1566565332) Soft cover. Book, "Athens has a history stretching back to Mycenean times. In the fifth century BC it became the most significant community for the development of political thought and practice, art and culture that had ever been seen.[it] describes the whole history of this great city from mythological and prehistoric times. though its flowering in the classical age; its transformation in Roman times from a major player in world politics into a quiet university city; its decline into ruin and insignificance in the Middle Ages, when it became the playground of the Crusaders and their successors; the long period of subjugation to the Ottoman Empire; its recreation as the capital of a new nation in the nineteenth century and one of the finest neo-classical cities in Europe; its troubled history in the twentieth century and its continuing place in the modern world. 370p. illus. maps. bibliography. index. Near Fine.

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