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1. Athens: Its Rise and Fall

   With Views of the Literature, Philosophy, and Social Life of the Athenian People

   By Edward Bulwer Lytton

   Edited by Oswyn Murray

   Athens: Its Rise and Fall, 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...

   Published July 30th 2012 by Routledge