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From Democrats to Kings

By Michael Scott

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From Democrats to Kings

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Athens, 404 BC. The Democratic city-state has been ravaged by a long and bloody war with neighbouring Sparta. The search for scapegoats begins, and Athens, liberty's shining beacon in the ancient world, turns its sword on its own way of life. Civil war and much bloodshed ensue. Defining moments of Greek history, culture, politics, religion and identity are debated ferociously in Athenian board rooms, back streets and battlefields. By 323 BC, less than 100 years later, Athens and the rest of Greece, not to mention a large part of the known world, has come under the control of an absoute monarch, a master of self-publicity and a model for despots for millennia to come: Alexander the Great. 'From Democrats to Kings' gives us a fresh take on the similar challenges we face today in the 21st century - a world in which many democracies, old and new, fight for survival; in which war-time and peace-time have become indistinguishable; and in which the severity of the economic crisis is only matched by a crisis in our own sense of self.
Product details
Number of Pages:
320
Release Date:
2009-10-01
Publication Date:
2009-10-01
Publisher:
Icon Books Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1848310730
ISBN13:
9781848310735
Weight:
564 g
Height:
164 cm
Width:
242 cm
Thickness:
30 cm
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