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Athens : a portrait of the city in its Golden Age by Christian Meier is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Athens : a portrait of the city in its Golden Age about?
A lively and accessible history of Athens's rise to greatness, from one of the foremost classical historians.<br><br>The definitive account of Athens in the age of Pericles, Christian Meier's gripping study begins with the Greek triumph over Persia at the Battle of Salamis, one of the most significant military victories in history. Meier shows how that victory decisively established Athens's military dominance in the Mediterranean and made possible its rise to preeminence in almost every field o
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Christian Meier
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Co. (NYC)
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780805048407
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, History, Greece
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (28 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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