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A Sweeping History Of Athens Telling The Three-Thousand-Year Story Birthplace Western Civilization From Runciman Award Winner Bruce Clark \ Stunning Retrospect And Beautifully Written Overview One World\ S Greatest Cities\ Paul Cartledge\ Courageously Grand In Scale Yet Sensitive To Details That Make Athens\ Extraordinary Come Alive\ Sofka Zinovieff\ Brings An Eye For Quirky Human Detail Pithy Turn Phrase Affection His Subject Honed Over Many Decades\ Roderick Beaton\ Clark\ Enchantingly Readable Revealed How Little I Knew\ Literary Reviewdominated By Pillars Pediments Parthenon Temple Dedicated Athena Goddess Wisdom Ancient Greek City Is Synonymous With Itself Athens: Tells Tale Occupies Unique Place Cultural Memory West Each Book\ Twenty-One Chapters Focuses On Critical Moment\ City\ Long Reforms Lawmaker Solon Sixth Century Bce Travails Early Twenty-First-Century As Rapidly Expanding Struggles Legacy Global Economic Crisis Has Rich Revealing Sequence Stories Tell – Not Only Familiar Golden Age Classical Removal Acropolis Marbles Agents 7Th Earl Elgin Nineteenth Or Holding First Modern Olympic Games 1896 But Also Less Fêted Later Years Antiquity When St Preached Areopagus Neo Platonists Refounded Academy Sulla\ Legions Had Desecrated He Delves Into Forgotten Medieval Centuries Unearthing Jewels Gleaming Byzantine Twilight Tales Christian Fortitude Erratic Turkish Governance Four Ottoman Rule Followed Few Places Have Enjoyed So Artistic Creativity Making Ideas Curiously Patterned Alternating Cycles Turbulence Quietness Writing Scholarly Rigour Undisguised Three Thousand Athenian Vividly Life Σελίδες: 624 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0830 Διαστάσεις: 12 8X12 8Cm