| Athens: Its Rise And Fall Contributor(s): Bulwer-Lytton, Edward (Author) |
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ISBN: 1419108085 ISBN-13: 9781419108082 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $40.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2004 Annotation: I. In the age of Pericles (B. C. 444) there is that which seems to excite, in order to disappoint, curiosity. We are fully impressed with the brilliant variety of his gifts--with the influence he exercised over his times. He stands in the midst of great and immortal names, at the close of a heroic, and yet in the sudden meridian of a civilized age. And scarcely does he recede from our gaze, ere all the evils which only his genius could keep aloof, gather and close around the city which it was the object of his life not less to adorn as for festival than to crown as for command. It is almost as if, with Pericles, her very youth departed from Athens. |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Greece - Philosophy - History | Europe - General |
| Dewey: 938.5 |
| Physical Information: 1.09" H x 7.5" W x 9.25" (2.02 lbs) 540 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece |
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