The Rise of Athens : The Story of the World’s Greatest Civilisation

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The Rise of Athens : The Story of the World’s Greatest CivilisationThe story of Athens is truly intriguing: how did a tiny community of 200,000 citizens manage to give birth to towering geniuses across the range of human endeavour, create one of the greatest civilizations in history, and lay the foundations of our own political and intellectual heritage? Taking the city itself as his central subject, Anthony Everitt relates the story of this early metropolis, taking in the strengths, flaws and unique brilliance of

για τον έρωτα και την προσδοκία

το Γουίτσγουντ

He commands the God Hephaestus to create Pandora

Epistolary fictions

materialism

του θανάτου

spanning from Greece to India

Essential phrases and expressions for use in daily life

on which the Epicurean definition of pleasure was based

she brings vividly to life a host of unforgettable characters

Clear photographs and line drawings illustrate the text well enough to allow keen readers to reproduce the artefacts for themselves

The Commentary's notes on language and style are intended to make the play fully accessible to students of Greek at all levels