Athens: Its Rise and Fall

Edward Bulwer Lytton, Oswyn Murray

• Introduction  Book I: From the Earliest Period to the Legislation of Solon to BC 594  Book II: From the Legislation of Solon to the Battle of Marathon, BC 594-490  Book III: From the Battle of Marathon to the Battles of Plataea and Mycale, BC 490-BC 479  Book IV: From the End of the Persian Invasion to the Death of Cimon, BC 479-BC 449  Book V: From the Death of Cimon, BC 449, to the death of Pericles, in the third year of the Peloponnesian War, BC 429  Book VI: (a fragment) From the Start of the Peloponnesian War to the Battle of Delium, BC 432/1-BC 424/3  Bibiography of Works Cited by the Author  Index

'Fascinating and valuable.' - The Journal of Classics Teaching'This splendid bicentenary edition ... has a captivating story that deserves to be known ... [it] is thus meritous both because it recovers an important book from oblivion and because it completes the 1837 edition ... we have now the most complete edition of Bulwer's reconstruction and interpretation of Athenian's rerum gestarum ... it is a precious document.' - BMCR