TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clark,Bruce
TI  - Athens: city of wisdom 
SN  - 9781643138756
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York
PB  - Pegasus Books
KW  - Athens (Greece)
KW  - History
KW  - Civilization
N1  - "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
N2  - "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."--
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