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Autore |
Lytton Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, <1803-1873., > |
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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 |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
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1-4255-3265-9 |
1-134-35997-7 |
1-134-35998-5 |
0-203-60194-7 |
1-280-07757-3 |
0-203-49044-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (629 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p.596-598) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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