Athens: Its Rise and Fall
With Views of the Literature, Philosophy, and Social Life of the Athenian People
Published on 25. March 2004
632 pages
978-1-134-35997-4 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
'Fascinating and valuable.' - The Journal of Classics Teaching'This splendid bicentenary edition ... has a captivating story that deserves to be known ... [it] is thus meritous both because it recovers an important book from oblivion and because it completes the 1837 edition ... we have now the most complete edition of Bulwer's reconstruction and interpretation of Athenian's rerum gestarum ... it is a precious document.' - BMCR
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
3,03 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-35997-4 (9781134359974)
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Edward Bulwer Lytton | Oswyn Murray
Athens: Its Rise and Fall
With Views of the Literature, Philosophy, and Social Life of the Athenian People
Book
08/2014
1st Edition
Routledge
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Edward Bulwer Lytton | Oswyn Murray
Athens: Its Rise and Fall
With Views of the Literature, Philosophy, and Social Life of the Athenian People
Book
03/2004
Routledge
€212.50
Shipment within 15-20 days
Persons
Edward Bulwer Lytton, Oswyn Murray
Content
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
