Athens : city of wisdom / Bruce Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Bruce, 1958- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Athens (Greece)--History.

Athens (Greece).

Athens (Greece)--Civilization.

Civilization.

Greece--Athens.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

614 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Pegasus Books cloth edition.

Other Title:

City of wisdom

Place of Publication:

New York : Pegasus Books, 2022.

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.

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 millennium

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.

Notes:

"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.

ISBN:

9781643138756

1643138758

OCLC:

1259047387

Publisher Number:

99989345478