Athens : city of wisdom /
Clark, Bruce, 1958-
Athens : city of wisdom / City of wisdom Bruce Clark. - First Pegasus Books cloth edition. - 614 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
"Few places have enjoyed a history so rich in artistic creativity and the making of ideas as Athens; or one so curiously patterned by alternating cycles of turbulence and peace. Writing with scholarly rigor and undisguised affection, Bruce Clark brings three thousand years of Athenian history vividly to life." -frontispiece.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The beginnings of greatness, 600-600 BCE -- Victories of brilliance, 500-480 BCE -- Golden years, 479-432 BCE -- Pride and a fall, 432-421 BCE -- A blazing twilight, 421-405 BCE -- A chastened democracy, 405-362 BCE -- A dance of death with Macedonia, 362-239 BCE -- Other people's empires, 239 BCE-137 CE -- Polytheists and barbarians, 138-560 CE -- A Christian millenium -- Latin and Greek: the late Middle Ages, 1216-1460 -- Before and after the bombardment, 1460-1700 -- Stones of contention, 1697-1820 -- A poet dreams on a rock, 1809-33 -- Hellenism and its expanding hub, 1833-96 -- Racing to war, 1896-1919 -- Of loss and consolidations, 1919-36 -- The darkest decade, 1940-50 -- A wedding and four funerals, 1960-2000 -- Pride, a fall and an open future, 2000-18 -- And Greece travels onwards.
"Even on the most smog-bound of days, the rocky outcrop on which the Acropolis stands is visible above the sprawling roof-scape of the Greek capital. Athens presents one of the most recognizable and symbolically potent panoramas of any of the world's cities: the pillars and pediments of the Parthenon--the temple dedicated to Athena, goddess of wisdom, that crowns the Acropolis--dominate a city whose name is synonymous for many with civilization itself."--
9781643138756 1643138758
Athens (Greece)--History.
Athens (Greece)--Civilization.
Athens : city of wisdom / City of wisdom Bruce Clark. - First Pegasus Books cloth edition. - 614 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
"Few places have enjoyed a history so rich in artistic creativity and the making of ideas as Athens; or one so curiously patterned by alternating cycles of turbulence and peace. Writing with scholarly rigor and undisguised affection, Bruce Clark brings three thousand years of Athenian history vividly to life." -frontispiece.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The beginnings of greatness, 600-600 BCE -- Victories of brilliance, 500-480 BCE -- Golden years, 479-432 BCE -- Pride and a fall, 432-421 BCE -- A blazing twilight, 421-405 BCE -- A chastened democracy, 405-362 BCE -- A dance of death with Macedonia, 362-239 BCE -- Other people's empires, 239 BCE-137 CE -- Polytheists and barbarians, 138-560 CE -- A Christian millenium -- Latin and Greek: the late Middle Ages, 1216-1460 -- Before and after the bombardment, 1460-1700 -- Stones of contention, 1697-1820 -- A poet dreams on a rock, 1809-33 -- Hellenism and its expanding hub, 1833-96 -- Racing to war, 1896-1919 -- Of loss and consolidations, 1919-36 -- The darkest decade, 1940-50 -- A wedding and four funerals, 1960-2000 -- Pride, a fall and an open future, 2000-18 -- And Greece travels onwards.
"Even on the most smog-bound of days, the rocky outcrop on which the Acropolis stands is visible above the sprawling roof-scape of the Greek capital. Athens presents one of the most recognizable and symbolically potent panoramas of any of the world's cities: the pillars and pediments of the Parthenon--the temple dedicated to Athena, goddess of wisdom, that crowns the Acropolis--dominate a city whose name is synonymous for many with civilization itself."--
9781643138756 1643138758
Athens (Greece)--History.
Athens (Greece)--Civilization.