Autore |
Everitt Anthony
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Westminster : , : Random House Publishing Group, , 2016
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Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (504 pages)
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Disciplina |
938.5
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ISBN |
0-8129-9459-0
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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Nota di contenuto |
Introduction: how to be Greek -- National hero -- State of war -- The Persian mule -- The shaking-off -- A friend of the poor -- Charioteers of the soul -- Inventing democracy -- Eastern raiders -- Fox as hedgehog -- Invasion -- "The acts of idiots" -- "O divine Salamis" -- League of Nations -- The falling out -- The kindly ones -- "Crowned with violets" -- The prisoners on the island -- The man who knew nothing -- Downfall -- The end of democracy? -- Sparta's turn -- Chaeronea: "fatal to liberty" -- Afterword: "a God-forsaken hole".
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Record Nr. | UNINA-9910151635903321 |