Athens: Its Rise and Fall
Athens: Its Rise and Fall
By Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
3 Jul, 2020
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton was once Britain's most famous historical novelist, rivaling and outselling Dickens in his day. His best-known book was The Last Days of Pompeii, yet he was also responsible for a great work of history. Athens: Its Rise and F
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Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton was once Britain's most famous historical novelist, rivaling and outselling Dickens in his day. His best-known book was The Last Days of Pompeii, yet he was also responsible for a great work of history. 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 Greek history by over a decade. Less