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Jessica Hische
from the present day back to the insurrectionary lepers and dream diarists of the ancient world
in which he imagines the death of Chekhov
the values and customs of ancient Greece received an especially lucid expression in the visual arts
The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization Kirkus Prize Nominee for Fiction (Finalist) (2015) Jessica HischeA magisterial account of how a tiny city state in ancient Greece became history's most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian. Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens celebrates the city state that transformed the world from the democratic revolution that marked its beginning, through the city's political and cultural golden age, to
