A Traveller's History of Athens

Athens has a history stretching back to Mycenaean times and in the fifth century BC it became the most significant community for the development of political thought and practice, art and culture that had ever been seen and which still retains a vital influence on the present day. When the Ancient Olympics were first revived at the end of the nineteenth century they took place in Athens—an occasion remembered in the Games of 2004. A Traveller's History of Athens describes the whole history ...