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A Traveller's History of Athens
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Author
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Richard Stoneman.
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paperback
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7.75
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ISBN
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9781566565332
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370/2004
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Daedalus Item Code
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22441
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Founded in Mycenaean times, Athens became a cradle of Western civilization by the 5th century BC, through the development of sophisticated politics, philosophy, art, and science—a cultural influence that remains vital today. Richard Stoneman gives us both a quote-filled history of the city and a guidebook to its museums, galleries, and archaeological sites. He chronicles Athens from mythological and prehistoric times, through the classical age, its role as a quiet university city in Roman times, its decline into ruin in the Middle Ages, its long possession by the Ottoman Empire, its rediscovery in the 19th century by a Europe infatuated with its cultural heritage, and its turbulent passage through the 20th century.
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