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Listening Length: 16 hours and 25 minutes

Program Type: Audiobook

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Publisher: HighBridge Company

Audible.com Release Date: December 6, 2016

Language: English, English

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Bought from and review first posted on the UK site a few minutes ago...This is a well-written and entertaining book that has been put together by an author who has thoroughly researched his topic. It is targeted at so-called “general reader”, writing so-called “popular history” and eminently accessible. It is also sufficiently well done that you do not realise at first glance to what extent the title does not really reflect the book’s contents in two main respects.One is that the book is not only about the “Rise of Athens”. It is also includes about a hundred pages on Athens after the Long War, and therefore after the fall of Athens and its surrender to the Spartans. This “long farewell” – which is fact rather short when compared to the total size of the book - summarises the fourth century Athens up to the defeat of Chaeronea against Philip the King of Macedonia during which the once leading city of Greece struggled and failed to restore its past glory and hegemony. The last chapter is about how Athens was reduced into what a Byzantine bishop of the late 12th century termed a “God forsaken hole”.A second point is that much of the book is in fact not so much about Athens as it is about the interactions between Athens, Sparta and the Persian Empire, to the extent that this reads at times more as a history of classical Greece than as a book centred on Athens even if the two other protagonist are treated in less detail. Having mentioned these points, it is also fair to state that they do not necessarily limit the book’s value. Whether you find this book valuable or not, and to what extent, will largely depend upon what you are looking for.Although the narrative has gaps at times, the author’s approach is to tell his stories by focusing on some of the main characters involved. The technique is a powerful one which makes for a lively and entertaining read and you can almost see each of the main Athenian characters – Solon, Pisistratus, Cleisthenes, Miltiades, Aristide, Themistocles, Pericles, Cleon, Alcibiades, Demosthenes and others stepping on the stage and coming under the spotlights for the author’s description and review. A similar technique is used for the major playwrights (Aeschylus, Euripides, Aristophanes etc…) with their main works being related to the political events that were happening at the time.I therefore entirely agree with the comments of another reviewer about the author’s narrative being at its strongest on political history. I would even stress that it is mainly that, with the author’s somewhat utopic enthusiasm in addition. There is comparatively little on the economy and trade of Athens or on every day and living conditions, perhaps because long developments on these social and economic conditions would disrupt the flow and make for a less entertaining and slower book. Moreover, what little there is relates to politics and strategy, in particular Athens need to control access to the Black Sea from which the indispensable grain fleets arrived, or her interest for Egypt or Sicily, two other “breadbaskets”, for similar reasons. There is little about what goods Athens had to other in exchange, about trading routes or about Athens monetary economy and the extent to which Athens’ “owls” (its silver drachmas) became the international currency and the equivalent of the British Pound or the US Dollar during the 20th century.Another feature of this book is the endearing, but perhaps also questionable, enthusiasm displayed by the author when he writes about Athens’ direct democracy. While he does mention some of its limits, such as the fact that the pool of citizens excluded foreigners, women and slaves, he does indeed take Pericles’ funeral oration and panegyric of the Athenian democracy at face value without seeming to realise that it did not exactly work as intended. He also largely glosses over the fact that Pericles’ own longevity and dominance corresponded to the Athens’ “Golden Age” and a period of stability than his (mostly) less talented successors would fail to maintain. A discussion on whether and to what extent Pericles’ ability maintain himself for so long as Athens strongman and dominate the city was compatible with real and radical Athenian democracy is entirely missing. So is an objective analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of such a regime, how instable it could be and how much it encouraged stasis, with the author enthusiastically believing it to be believe possible (or even ideal) nowadays thanks to electronic voting.Four stars for a good introduction, despite some limitations.

Mr. Everitt's book is an easy, entertaining read. "Accessible," I suppose, as some of the other reviewers put it., although I am not sure I've read an inaccessible book, other than attempting one in a foreign language in which I was not fluent. He covers far more than the rise of Athens, ending only with the death of Alexander the Great, although the rise of Macedon is only cursorily addressed, perhaps to wind up Athens' history of influence. There is plenty of information on culture, government, warfare, city life, and individual leaders, which made for interesting and wide-ranging reading. There is also quite a bit of information on the other city states, and Persia, offered in context and contrast to Athens' activities. I've read several Greek histories, and some of them can be a bit dry, but that was not the case here. Lots of interesting information, well-presented, and not overly academic.

The Rise of Athens covers the period of c. 650 BC to c 350 BC and focuses primarily on the relationship between Athens and Sparta, with Persia constantly close in the background. The author does an excellent job of communicating the essentials while providing enough background to make the book readable by anyone who is not familiar with the time period.The Peloponessian War consumes a large part of the book as it was so fundamental in the history of the region, but the arts and famous philosophers also receive substantial attention. Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles all enter the narrative, and of course Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. The author provides a vivid description of how open and advanced ancient Greece was through the lives of these men. Although, the treatment of Socrates also displays the irrationality and fury of the mob which the same philosophers warned about regarding democracy,Pericles and Solon are analyzed and the validity of some of their ideas are proven by being familiar to the reader today, 2500 years later. The stranger than fiction lives of Thermistocles and Alciabades are also entertainingly covered. And finally Phillip and his famous son, Alexander come into the story near the end.Overall, this book provides a fluent and detailed account of the various aspects that contributed to Anicent Greece being "the birth of civilization." It is hard to believe how it is possible for the world to regress so drastically and fall into the dark ages being revived. Highly recommend.

Despite its title, this is a very detailed and thick narrative history of Greece in the 5th century BCE, with lots of background and with a helpful glossary of terms and a time line but only a so-so bibliography. Like J. B. Bury's classic "History of Greece," it's heavily dependent on Thucydides, with lots of quotations to wet your appetite for that wonderful writer about those parlous times in the second half of the fifth century (not so unlike our own unfortunately). It's a great, leisurely read but don't expect to fly through it even if you're already familiar with the story. My only complaint is that there was no map of the Sicily Expedition that ended so disastrously for Athens.

It was a good buy

Provides an interesting view of what life in Ancient Greece was really like.

I've read everything Anthony Everitt has written about Rome & thoroughly enjoyed them all. For some reason this book just seemed to take forever to get to the main topic. Too much background & Greek mythology. However if you don't know much about Greek history you might enjoy it.For some reason it just didn't catch my fancy, regrettable as like this author.

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