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100 1 _aWaterfield, Robin,
_d1952-
245 1 0 _aAthens :
_ba history, from ancient ideal to modern city /
_cRobin Waterfield.
260 _aLondon :
_bMacMillan,
_cc2004.
300 _axxi, 362 p., [16] p. of plates :
_bill., maps ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 343-346) and index.
505 0 0 _tThe Olympic ideal --
_g1.
_tThe festival at ancient Olympia --
_g2.
_tNineteenth-century Athens and the 1896 Olympics --
_tThe early city and the foundation of democracy --
_g3.
_tAthens in prehistory --
_g4.
_tArchaic Athens --
_g5.
_tSolon : poet and statesman --
_g6.
_tThe peisistratid renaissance and the Athenian revolution --
_g7.
_tThe Persian wars --
_tThe classical city : democracy and empire --
_g8.
_tCold war, empire, and democracy --
_g9.
_tPeriklean Athens --
_tThe city at leisure --
_g10.
_tReligion --
_g11.
_tDrama --
_g12.
_tEducation : the Sophists and Sokrates --
_g13.
_tIndoor life : sex, symposia, and sandals --
_tThe city at work --
_g14.
_tWork, money, and taxes --
_g15.
_tThe Agora, women, and slaves --
_tThe downfall of Athens : a greek tragedy --
_g16.
_tOpen warfare --
_g17.
_tThe Arkhidamian war --
_g18.
_tThe tipping of the scales --
_g19.
_tDefeat and civil war --
_tThe Hellenistic and Roman city --
_g20.
_tAthens in the fourth century --
_g21.
_tHellenistic Athens --
_g22.
_tThe coming of the Romans --
_tAthens reduced and reinvented --
_g23.
_tAthens under Byzantion --
_g24.
_tAthens under the Franks --
_g25.
_tOttoman Athens and Elgin's Marbles --
_g26.
_tByron and the war of independence --
_tEpilogue --
_g27.
_tThe 2004 Olympics --
_g28.
_tEnvoi.
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."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 _aAthens (Greece)
_xHistory.
856 4 1 _3Table of contents
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0412/2003027411.html
900 _bTOC
942 _2lcc
_cDWBSLC
_hDF 921
_i.W37 2004