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Athens : city of wisdom / Bruce Clark.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Pegasus Books, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Edition: First Pegasus Books cloth editionDescription: 614 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781643138756
  • 1643138758
Other title:
  • City of wisdom
Subject(s):
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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."-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A sweeping narrative history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization.

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.

It is hard not to feel the hand of history in such a place. The birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy and theatre, Athens' importance cannot be understated. Few cities have enjoyed a history so rich in artistic creativity and the making of ideas; or one so curiously patterned by alternating cycles of turbulence and quietness.

From the legal reforms of the lawmaker Solon in the sixth century BCE to the travails of early twenty-first century Athens, as it struggles with the legacy of the economic crises of the 2000s, Clark brings the city's history to life, evoking its cultural richness and political resonance in this epic, kaleidoscopic history.

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

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