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Tables of Contents for Athens
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
xiii
Acknowledgements
xv
Introduction
xvii
THE OLYMPIC IDEAL
1. The Festival at Ancient Olympia
3
17
2. Nineteenth-century Athens and the 1896 Olympics
20
13
THE EARLY CITY AND THE FOUNDATION OF DEMOCRACY
3. Athens in Prehistory
33
7
4. Archaic Athens
40
8
5. Solon: Poet and Statesman
48
6
6. The Peisistratid Renaissance and the Athenian Revolution
54
9
7. The Persian Wars
63
12
THE CLASSICAL CITY: DEMOCRACY AND EMPIRE
8. Cold War, Empire, and Democracy
75
12
9. Periklean Athens
87
THE CITY AT LEISURE
10. Religion
107
13
11. Drama
120
8
12. Education: The Sophists and Sokrates
128
8
13. Indoor Life: Sex, Symposia, and Sandals
136
13
THE CITY AT WORK
14. Work, Money, and Taxes
149
10
15. The Agora, Women, and Slaves
159
16
THE DOWNFALL OF ATHENS A CREEK TRAGEDY
16. Open Warfare
175
8
17. The Arkhidamian War
183
9
18. The Tipping of the Scales
192
8
19. Defeat and Civil War
200
17
THE HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN CITY
20. Athens in the Fourth Century
217
14
21. Hellenistic Athens
231
14
22. The Coming of the Romans
245
14
ATHENS REDUCED AND REINVENTED
23. Athens Under Byzantion
259
14
24. Athens Under the Franks
273
8
25. Ottoman Athens and Elgin's Marbles
281
13
26. Byron and the War of Independence
294
13
EPILOGUE
27. The 2004 Olympics
307
18
28. Envoi
325
4
Maps
329
6
Key Dates
335
4
Glossary
339
4
Bibliography
343
4
Index
347