Athens: Its Rise and Fall

<p><em>Athens: Its Rise and Fall</em> 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.</p><p>Originally published in two volumes this new one-volume edition includes the text of the never-before published 'third volume' on which he was working at the time of his death recently rediscovered by Oxford academic Oswyn Murray.</p><p>An absolute must for any scholar of ancient Greece.</p>