If ever a city's present were bound up in the myth of its past, that city is Athens. Robin Waterfield sees its phenomenal fifth century rise and fall as the greatest of all Greek tragedies: a paradigm whose impact on European civilization has been profound. In this vivid, panoramic history he continues the story through 1,500 years of obscurity to Athens's Renaissance and Romantic revivals, and on to the triumphs and adversities of the chaotic, enchanting present-day city.
'Waterfield's Athens is a splendid introduction, dispassionate yet sympathetic'
Mary Lefkowitz, author of Greek Gods, Human Lives
'A sympathetic account of the city's chequered history that is as critical as it is free of condescension -- superbly written with great empathy by a classicist, translator, olive farmer, and philhellene'
Victor Davis Hanson, author of The Other Greeks
- ISBN10 0330492837
- ISBN13 9780330492836
- Publish Date 5 May 2006 (first published 7 May 2004)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 25 November 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Pan Books
- Edition Unabridged edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 432
- Language English