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Everitt (Augustus; The Rise of Rome) has created another engaging, readable, and informative narrative about classical antiquity. This history of Athens begins with the stories of Homer and Theseus, where history and myth provide the framework of early Greek identity. Then Everitt maneuvers into the more reliably documented past of classical Greece, illuminated by Greek historians Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon. The book finishes with the decline of...Log In or Sign Up to Read More