Athens
a portrait of the city in its Golden Age
by Christian Meier
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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 victories in history. Meier shows how that victory decisively established Athens' military dominance in the Mediterranean and made possible its rise to preeminence in almost every field of human endeavor - 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. Meier traces the birth of democracy and the flourishing of Greek culture in the fifth century B.C., as well as Athens' slow decline and defeat in the Peloponnesian War.
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History, Athenian supremacy, 479-431 B.C, Athens (Greece), Greece, Salamis, Battle of, Greece, 480 B.C., Influence, History: World, Ancient Greece - History, Salamis, Battle of, Greece, 480 B.C, History - General History, Europe - Greece, Ancient - Greece, History / Ancient / Greece, Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C, Athenian supremacy, 479-431 B, New York Times reviewed, Athens (greece), history, Athens (greece), description and travel, Greece, history, persian wars, 500-449 b.c., Greece, history, to 146 b.c.Places
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Athens: A Portrait of the City in Its Golden Age
2015, Holt & Company, Henry
in English
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Athens a Portrait of the City in Its Golden Age
1999, John Murray
Hardcover
in English
0719559596 9780719559594
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Athens: A Portrait of the City in Its Golden Age
September 16, 1998, Metropolitan Books
Hardcover
in English
0805048405 9780805048407
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Athens: a portrait of the city in its Golden Age
1998, Metropolitan Books/H. Holt and Co.
in English
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Athen. Ein Neubeginn der Weltgeschichte.
April 1, 1997, btb
Paperback
in German
3442722101 9783442722105
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Athen: ein Neubeginn der Weltgeschichte
1993, Siedler Verlag
in German
- 2. Aufl.
3886801284 9783886801282
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Athen: Ein Neubeginn der Weltgeschichte
1993, Siedler Verlag
Hardcover
in German
- 2. Aufl edition
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