Athens : its rise and fall ; with views of the literature, philosophy, and social life of the Athenian people / Edward Bulwer Lytton ; bicentary edition edited by Oswyn Murray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873.

Contributor:

Murray, Oswyn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Athens (Greece)--History.

Athens (Greece).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (629 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; Welcome; Preface; Introduction; Dedication; Advertisement; 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-bc 490; BOOK III From the battle of Marathon to the battles of Platæa 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 424/3Bibliography of works cited by the author; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p.596-598) and index.

ISBN:

1-4255-3265-9

1-134-35997-7

1-134-35998-5

0-203-60194-7

1-280-07757-3

0-203-49044-4

9780203490440

OCLC:

299512595