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Phoenix : a father, a son, and the rise of Athens /

A vivid, novelistic history of the rise of Athens from relative obscurity to the edge of its golden age, told through the lives of Miltiades and Cimon, the father and son whose defiance of Persia vaulted Athens to a leading place in the Greek world. When we think of ancient Greece we think first of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stuttard, David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Out of the ashes
  • I. Inheritance: Ancestors
  • When the Persians came
  • Trials of strength
  • II. Athena's bridle: Between two wars
  • Dedication
  • Firestorm
  • III. Strengths of men
  • Hegemon
  • Securing Athens
  • 'I am Eurymedon'
  • IV. Peripateia: Earthquake
  • Aftershock
  • At the right hand of Zeus.