Athens After Empire

Ian Worthington's Athens After Empire shows how there has been a tendency to fixate on the heyday of famous ancient cities while the events before or after have been unfairly and misleadingly eclipsed. Paul Cartledge's excellent Hellenistic and Roman Sparta presents how such an approach distorted Sparta's enduring importance. Now, Worthington's splendid, learned, and highly readable volume will achieve the same for Athens. Worthington's aim is to demonstrate that Athens did not fade away or drop off the historical radar or even decline into oblivion, and he successfully proves his thesis. * Georgina Longley, World History Encyclopedia * Worthington skillfully steers a middle course between an optimistic picture of Athenian civic (or even democratic) vitality and sensitivity to realities of power.... Anyone curious to learn, for example, why the now most striking feature of the archaeological site of the Athenian agora is the reconstructed Stoa of Attalos, the gift of a Hellenistic king, will find reliable answers here.... An excellent guide to the complex entanglement of cities and kings in the Greek world from the Classical period on. * Times Literary Supplement * a good summary of the large amount of work in recent decades on Hellenistic and Roman Athens * Kostas Vlassopoulos, Greece & Rome * An excellent guide to the complex entanglements of cities and kings in the Greek world from the Classical period on. * Times Literary Supplement *