Athens: Its Rise and Fall

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Edward Bulwer Lytton’s Athens: Its Rise and Fall Complete is a comprehensive history of the Golden Age of Athens, when its cultural dominance was at its apex in the 5th century B.C. Of course, its fall came as a result of the destructive Peloponnesian War against Sparta, which ravaged Greece for decades near the end of the 5th century.