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Book Synopsis A Traveller's History of Athens by : Richard Stoneman
Download or read book A Traveller's History of Athens written by Richard Stoneman and published by Interlink Books. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stoneman describes the whole history of this great city from mythological times through its troubled history in the 20th century and its continuing place in the hearts and minds of all visitors. Line drawings & maps.
Book Synopsis A Traveller's History of Greece by : Tim Boatswain
Download or read book A Traveller's History of Greece written by Tim Boatswain and published by Interlink Publishing Group. This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Clearly written, well-structured, and fixing on illuminating and arresting details about events, places, and participants, the book packs a lot into a compact format . . . [An] excellent, needed, and rewarding publication."--"Small Press. Line drawings & maps.
Book Synopsis A Traveller's History of Greece by : Andrew Robert Burn
Download or read book A Traveller's History of Greece written by Andrew Robert Burn and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Rise of Athens by : Anthony Everitt
Download or read book The Rise of Athens written by Anthony Everitt and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history’s most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens celebrates the city-state that transformed the world—from the democratic revolution that marked its beginning, through the city’s political and cultural golden age, to its decline into the ancient equivalent of a modern-day university town. Anthony Everitt constructs his history with unforgettable portraits of the talented, tricky, ambitious, and unscrupulous Athenians who fueled the city’s rise: Themistocles, the brilliant naval strategist who led the Greeks to a decisive victory over their Persian enemies; Pericles, arguably the greatest Athenian statesman of them all; and the wily Alcibiades, who changed his political allegiance several times during the course of the Peloponnesian War—and died in a hail of assassins’ arrows. Here also are riveting you-are-there accounts of the milestone battles that defined the Hellenic world: Thermopylae, Marathon, and Salamis among them. An unparalleled storyteller, Everitt combines erudite, thoughtful historical analysis with stirring narrative set pieces that capture the colorful, dramatic, and exciting world of ancient Greece. Although the history of Athens is less well known than that of other world empires, the city-state’s allure would inspire Alexander the Great, the Romans, and even America’s own Founding Fathers. It’s fair to say that the Athenians made possible the world in which we live today. In this peerless new work, Anthony Everitt breathes vivid life into this most ancient story. Praise for The Rise of Athens “[An] invaluable history of a foundational civilization . . . combining impressive scholarship with involving narration.”—Booklist “Compelling . . . a comprehensive and entertaining account of one of the most transformative societies in Western history . . . Everitt recounts the high points of Greek history with flair and aplomb.”—Shelf Awareness “Highly readable . . . Everitt keeps the action moving.”—Kirkus Reviews Praise for Anthony Everitt’s The Rise of Rome “Rome’s history abounds with remarkable figures. . . . Everitt writes for the informed and the uninformed general reader alike, in a brisk, conversational style, with a modern attitude of skepticism and realism.”—The Dallas Morning News “[A] lively and readable account . . . Roman history has an uncanny ability to resonate with contemporary events.”—Maclean’s “Elegant, swift and faultless as an introduction to his subject.”—The Spectator “An engrossing history of a relentlessly pugnacious city’s 500-year rise to empire.”—Kirkus Reviews “Fascinating history and a great read.”—Chicago Sun-Times
Book Synopsis Ancient Athens On 5 Drachmas a Day by : Philip Matyszak
Download or read book Ancient Athens On 5 Drachmas a Day written by Philip Matyszak and published by Thames and Hudson. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A time-traveler's guide to sightseeing, shopping, and survival in the city of gods and geniuses. Welcome to Athens in 431 BC! This entertaining guide provides all the information a tourist needs for a journey back in time to ancient Athens at its pinnacle of greatness more than 2000 years ago. Travel via Thermopylae, the Oracle at Delphi, and the site of the epic Battle of Marathon to the city of Athena, goddess of wisdom. Meet Socrates, Thucydides, Phidias, and others who are among the greatest philosophers, writers, and artists who ever lived. Encounter ordinary Athenians in the marketplace and at the theater and learn the true character of one of the most extraordinary cities of any age. Of course, ancient Athens was not all art, intellect, and politics. This well-researched yet irreverently unacademic guide also plunges gleefully into the hedonistic side of Athenian life with wine-sodden symposiums, brothels, and brawls, advising the reader to avoid slatternly prostitutes and inns where the beds are infested with bugs, and warning that both torches and an escort are needed to avoid muggers after an evening on the town. Ancient Athens on 5 Drachmas a Day takes you through the raucous city crowds to the serene heights of the Parthenon and evokes the wonder of a city where the monuments and ideas that form the bedrock of Western culture are as fresh and new as the garlands of flowers on Athena's altar.
Download or read book Ancient Athens written by Don Nardo and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical look at ancient Athens and its people, education, weather, transportation, hotels, shopping, festivals, sporting events, banks, government, and sightseeing.
Book Synopsis Travelers to an Antique Land by : Robert Eisner
Download or read book Travelers to an Antique Land written by Robert Eisner and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of scholars, writers, artists, and explorers woven together in a narrative of Greek travel
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens by : Jenifer Neils
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens written by Jenifer Neils and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive introduction to ancient Athens, its topography, monuments, inhabitants, cultural institutions, religious rituals, and politics. Drawing from the newest scholarship on the city, this volume examines how the city was planned, how it functioned, and how it was transformed from a democratic polis into a Roman urbs.
Book Synopsis The Thrifty Guide to Ancient Greece by : Jonathan W. Stokes
Download or read book The Thrifty Guide to Ancient Greece written by Jonathan W. Stokes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the publishing house that brought you the Who Was? books comes the next big series to make history approachable, engaging, and funny! The Thrifty Guide to the Ancient Greece: A Handbook for Time Travelers is a snappy, informative travel guide containing information vital to the sensible time traveler: * How can I find a decent tunic that won't break my bank account? * Where can I score cheap theater tickets in ancient Athens? * What do I do if I'm being attacked by an army of one million Persians? This two-color book is filled with humorous maps, reviews of places to stay and top attractions (Don't miss the first-ever Olympics!), and tips on who to have lunch with (Alexander the Great and his horse, Bucephalus, naturally). If you had a time travel machine and could take a vacation anywhere in history, this is the only guidebook you would need.
Book Synopsis Athens: A History by : Robin Waterfield
Download or read book Athens: A History written by Robin Waterfield and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date accessible history of the phenomenal rise and fall of the greatest city of antiquity, describing its rise to pre-eminence and rapid demise as the greatest of all Greek tragedies. The first history of the city to continue the story through 1500 years of obscurity to its romantic revival under Byron's influence and up to the present day, is eminently qualified to write this book. A classicist by training, he has translated many of the key texts for Penguin Classics and OUP, is intimate with the latest scholarship and travels to Greece every year.
Book Synopsis DK Eyewitness Top 10 Athens by : DK Eyewitness
Download or read book DK Eyewitness Top 10 Athens written by DK Eyewitness and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True to its name, this travel guide covers all of Athens's major sights and attractions in easy-to-use top 10 lists that help you plan the vacation that's right for you. This newly updated travel guide for Athens will lead you straight to the best attractions this city has to offer, from the Acropolis to the Parthenon. Travel back to ancient times and visit the Temple of Zeus, the ruler of the mythological Greek gods. Expert travel writers have fully revised this edition of DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Athens. + Brand-new itineraries help you plan your trip to Athens. + Maps of walking routes show you the best ways to maximize your time. + New Top 10 lists feature off-the-beaten-track ideas, along with standbys like the top attractions, shopping, dining options, and more. +New typography and fresh layout throughout. You'll still find DK's famous full-color photography and museum floor plans, along with just the right amount of coverage of history and culture. The perfect travel companion: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Athens. Recommended: For an in-depth guidebook to Greece, check out DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Greece, Athens & the Mainland, which offers a complete overview of this country; thousands of photographs, illustrations, and maps; and more.
Download or read book Athens Disclosed written by Denis Roubien and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You want to understand not only ancient but also modern Athens, Athens after ancient times, in a guided tour? This is the book for you! (Look also for the colour edition and for the other books in the series) This book's purpose is to help you understand what travel guides don't explain. You can find a lot of books on ancient Athens. If you get there, a guided tour will give you all the information you will need. But what about Athens in the centuries that followed? What about the old houses, old churches, mosques, baths and other obscure sights you stumble upon everywhere? This book, written by a specialist of Athens and including a large number of black and white photos and detailed maps, apart from presenting all the major sights of Athens of all times, will help you understand the city of today and not feel lost as a visitor. This is done through three itineraries: The first itinerary will lead you through Plaka, the multi-layered core of the historical centre of Athens, built above the ancient city and inextricably mixed with it, where you will find monuments from all periods of Athenian history, from Antiquity to modern times through the Byzantine and Ottoman periods. The 'Monumental Axis' is the proposed second itinerary in case you want to discover the main monuments of neoclassical Athens, the modern city created from 1833 onwards as the capital of the newly founded Greek State. The third itinerary corresponds to what is officially known as the 'Great Promenade'. It is a pedestrian zone linking most of the major archaeological sites of Athens. Although these sites are chronologically anterior to most of the sights presented previously, they are presented last. The reason is that the 'Great Promenade' was created only at the beginning of the 21st century, linking sites that were previously 'lost' in the urban fabric of the modern city and often difficult to find and access. The image they present today is largely the result of these recent interventions, therefore this book recommends this order in their visit. However, if you prefer, you can always follow the 'Great Promenade' and visit these archaeological sites before following the other two proposed itineraries. The author of this book holds a PhD in Architectural History from the National Technical University of Athens and a master in heritage preservation from the Ecole de Chaillot of Paris. He is a professor at the University of the Peloponnese, where he teaches these subjects. He is also a fervent cultural hiker. His travel books (mostly about Greece) are addressed to you, the reader with a special interest in cultural sites. In order to help you better understand and remember these sites, they are written as a guided tour. They include encounters with interesting people and other personal travel experiences which will help you organize your own trip beyond the tourist clichés. Pick up your copy today by clicking the BUY NOW button at the top of this page!
Book Synopsis Frommer's Athens Past & Present by : Emanuele Greco
Download or read book Frommer's Athens Past & Present written by Emanuele Greco and published by *Frommers. This book was released on 2004-05-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ingenious book that brings ancient Athens to life-perfect for anyone traveling to Greece The 2004 Olympic Games are expected to draw hundreds of thousands of visitors to Athens between August 13th and 29th-and most of these visitors will take a break from the games to visit Athens' most famous tourist attraction, the Acropolis. That's where this unique guidebook comes in. Contemporary full-color photos show what the Parthenon, the Erechtheion, the Temple of Athena Nike, the Propylaea, and all the other celebrated ruins on the Acropolis and elsewhere in Athens look like today. But with the flip of a meticulously painted acetate overlay, people can see exactly what each site looked like back in the 5th century b.c! And for visitors who are traveling outside of Athens, the book also includes the best sites in Olympia, Cape Sounion, and Aegina. Small enough to fit comfortably in a pocket or purse, spiral-bound for ease of use, and complete with concise descriptions of each archeological site, this is the perfect secondary guidebook for any traveler who wants to grasp the glory that was Greece.
Book Synopsis Greek Civilization Through the Eyes of Travellers and Scholars by : Contominas Library (Athens, Greece)
Download or read book Greek Civilization Through the Eyes of Travellers and Scholars written by Contominas Library (Athens, Greece) and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully bound - blind tooled full leatherette, gold-stamped with paper cover label.In one of the most elegant annotated bibliographies ever created, Leonora Navari, the compiler in association with Konstantinos Staikos, a leading authority of library history and bibliographies, have created an indispensable aid to any scholar of Greek culture. This work documents the renowned collection of Dimitris Contominas whose library was built with the goal of collecting every book by scholars and visitors to Greece from the fifteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Each book is completely described bibliographically, with pagination, collations of signatures, descriptions of illustrations, and bindings. The notes are varied and include information on printing history, biographical details of the authors illustrators, the significance of the work, and its connection with the historical bias of its time as well as a listing of selected holdings. The historical introduction is bilingual in English and Greek with all the annotations in English. There are over 200 rare illustrations, most in color and multiple indexes.
Book Synopsis How to Survive in Ancient Greece by : Robert Garland
Download or read book How to Survive in Ancient Greece written by Robert Garland and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would it be like if you were transported back to Athens 420 BCE? This time-traveler’s guide is a fascinating way to find out . . . Imagine you were transported back in time to Ancient Greece and you had to start a new life there. What would you see? How would the people around you think and believe? How would you fit in? Where would you live? What would you eat? What work would be available, and what help could you get if you got sick? All these questions, and many more, are answered in this engaging blend of self-help and survival guide that plunges you into this historical environment—and explains the many problems and strange new experiences you would face if you were there.
Book Synopsis Ancient Athens by : Ernest Arthur Gardner
Download or read book Ancient Athens written by Ernest Arthur Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Greece written by Artemis Leontis and published by Traveler's Literary Companions. This book was released on 1997 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-four short stories and prose poems by modern Greek writers. The subjects range from ancient mythology to World War, II to present-day surrealism. Fifth in a traveler's literary companion series.
