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Athens : its rise and fall ; with views of the literature, philosophy, and social life of the Athenian people /
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 G...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 610 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 596-598) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780203490440 0203490444 9780415320870 0415320879 1134359985 9781134359981 0203601947 9780203601945 1280077573 9781280077579 |