03296pam a22002894a 45000010008000000030006000080050017000140080041000310100017000720200015000890350023001040350017001270400027001440420008001710430012001790500021001910820017002121000030002292450080002592600033003393000059003725040064004315051240004955201163017356510030028988560078029284794029AUA.120200220113538.0031215s2004    nyuabf   b    001 0 eng    a  2003027411  a0333989910  a(OCoLC)ocm53926886  a(NNC)4794029  aDLCcDLCdYDXdOrLoB-B  apcc  ae-gr---00aDF921b.W37 200400a949.5/122221 aWaterfield, Robin,d1952-10aAthens :ba history, from ancient ideal to modern city /cRobin Waterfield.  aLondon :bMacMillan,cc2004.  axxi, 362 p., [16] p. of plates :bill., maps ;c25 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 343-346) and index.00tThe Olympic ideal --g1.tThe festival at ancient Olympia --g2.tNineteenth-century Athens and the 1896 Olympics --tThe early city and the foundation of democracy --g3.tAthens in prehistory --g4.tArchaic Athens --g5.tSolon : poet and statesman --g6.tThe peisistratid renaissance and the Athenian revolution --g7.tThe Persian wars --tThe classical city : democracy and empire --g8.tCold war, empire, and democracy --g9.tPeriklean Athens --tThe city at leisure --g10.tReligion --g11.tDrama --g12.tEducation : the Sophists and Sokrates --g13.tIndoor life : sex, symposia, and sandals --tThe city at work --g14.tWork, money, and taxes --g15.tThe Agora, women, and slaves --tThe downfall of Athens : a greek tragedy --g16.tOpen warfare --g17.tThe Arkhidamian war --g18.tThe tipping of the scales --g19.tDefeat and civil war --tThe Hellenistic and Roman city --g20.tAthens in the fourth century --g21.tHellenistic Athens --g22.tThe coming of the Romans --tAthens reduced and reinvented --g23.tAthens under Byzantion --g24.tAthens under the Franks --g25.tOttoman Athens and Elgin's Marbles --g26.tByron and the war of independence --tEpilogue --g27.tThe 2004 Olympics --g28.tEnvoi.1 a"Beginning with the classical period, when it reached its pinnacle of power and cultural genius, Athens: A History is peopled with fascinating individuals. Athens' remarkable ascent had been inspired by the ideals embodied in the ancient Olympic games, but the city deliberately turned its back on those ideals, in Athens' stunning rise and rapid fall lies a timeless tragedy of excessive pride brought low. Contrasting its noble ideals and arrogant actions, Waterfield finds in Athens' story a moral for all time - and vital lessons for the current era." "From its heyday in the fifth century B.C., Athens: A History traces the city's transformations under the yoke of foreign empires - Macedonian, Roman, Byzantine, Frankish and Ottoman - and its revival as the capital of the newly independent nation of Greece. Today, it is a burgeoning European city, host of the 2004 Olympics and heir to a momentous historical and cultural legacy. From Pericles and Socrates to Lord Byron and Baron de Coubertin - founder of the modern Olympic games - this is a powerful, evocative history of a city whose glorious past continues to inspire the present."--BOOK JACKET. 0aAthens (Greece)xHistory.413Table of contentsuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0412/2003027411.html