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020			_a9781643138756 _q(hardback)
020			_a1643138758 _q(hardback)
035			_a(OCoLC)1259047387
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049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aClark, Bruce, _d1958- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aAthens : _bcity of wisdom / _cBruce Clark.
246	3	0	_aCity of wisdom
250			_aFirst Pegasus Books cloth edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bPegasus Books, _c2022.
264		4	_c©2022
300			_a614 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (chiefly color), maps ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"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.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_tThe beginnings of greatness, 600-600 BCE -- _tVictories of brilliance, 500-480 BCE -- _tGolden years, 479-432 BCE -- _tPride and a fall, 432-421 BCE -- _tA blazing twilight, 421-405 BCE -- _tA chastened democracy, 405-362 BCE -- _tA dance of death with Macedonia, 362-239 BCE -- _tOther people's empires, 239 BCE-137 CE -- _tPolytheists and barbarians, 138-560 CE -- _tA Christian millenium -- _tLatin and Greek: the late Middle Ages, 1216-1460 -- _tBefore and after the bombardment, 1460-1700 -- _tStones of contention, 1697-1820 -- _tA poet dreams on a rock, 1809-33 -- _tHellenism and its expanding hub, 1833-96 -- _tRacing to war, 1896-1919 -- _tOf loss and consolidations, 1919-36 -- _tThe darkest decade, 1940-50 -- _tA wedding and four funerals, 1960-2000 -- _tPride, a fall and an open future, 2000-18 -- _tAnd Greece travels onwards.
520			_a"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."-- _cProvided by publisher.
651		0	_aAthens (Greece) _xHistory. _946494
651		0	_aAthens (Greece) _xCivilization. _944974
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