Athens

Its Rise and Fall: With Views of the Literature, Philosophy, and Social Life of the Athenian People

By: Edward Bulwer Lytton, Oswyn Murray (Editor)

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Hardcover | 25 March 2004 | Edition Number 1

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Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton was once Britain's most famous historical novelist, rivalling and outselling Dickens in his day. His best-known book was "The Last Days of Pompeii"; yet he was also responsible for a great work of history.
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.
2003 is the bicentenary of Bulwer-Lytton's birth. To celebrate, Routledge is reissuing this influential work. This new edition will include the text of a never-before published "third volume," recently discovered by Oxford academic Oswyn Murray.

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'Fascinating and valuable.' - The Journal of Classics Teaching

'This splendid bicentenary edition ... has a captivating story that deserves to be known ... [it] is thus meritous both because it recovers an important book from oblivion and because it completes the 1837 edition ... we have now the most complete edition of Bulwer's reconstruction and interpretation of Athenian's rerum gestarum ... it is a precious document.' - BMCR

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Welcome	p. xv
Preface	p. xvi
Introduction A Lost School of History: Ancient Greece in the Age of Reform	p. 1
Dedication	p. 36
Advertisement	p. 38
From the Earliest Period to the Legislation of Solon to Bc 594	p. 41
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From the Legislation of Solon to the Battle of Marathon, Bc 594-Bc 490	p. 177
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From the Battle of Marathon to the Battles of Platæa and Mycale, Bc 490-Bc 479	p. 255
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From the End of the Persian Invasion to the Death of Cimon, Bc 479-Bc 449	p. 361
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From the Death of Cimon, Bc 449, to the Death of Pericles, in the Third Year of the Peloponnesian War, Bc 429	p. 447
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From the Start of the Peloponnesian War to the Battle of Delium, Bc 432/1-Bc 424/3	p. 525
Introduction	p. 527
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Bibliography of Works Cited by the Author	p. 596
Index	p. 599
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