Ancient Athens on 5 Drachmas a Day by Philip Matyszak
Welcome to Athens in 431 BC! This entertaining guide provides all the information a tourist needs for a journey back in time to ancient Athens at its pinnacle of greatness more than 2000 years ago. Travel via Thermopylae, the Oracle at Delphi, and the site of the epic Battle of Marathon to the city of Athena, goddess of wisdom. Meet Socrates, Thucydides, Phidias, and others who are among the greatest philosophers, writers, and artists who ever lived. Encounter ordinary Athenians in the marketplace and at the theater and learn the true character of one of the most extraordinary cities of any age.Of course, ancient Athens was not all art, intellect, and politics. This well-researched yet irreverently unacademic guide also plunges gleefully into the hedonistic side of Athenian life with wine-sodden symposiums, brothels, and brawls, advising the reader to avoid slatternly prostitutes and inns where the beds are infested with bugs, and warning that both torches and an escort are needed to avoid muggers after an evening on the town.
Ancient Athens on 5 Drachmas a Day takes you through the raucous city crowds to the serene heights of the Parthenon and evokes the wonder of a city where the monuments and ideas that form the bedrock of Western culture are as fresh and new as the garlands of flowers on Athena's altar.
PHILIP 'MATY' MATYSZAK has a degree in Ancient History from Oxford University's St John's College and has been studying, teaching, and writing on the topic for over two decades. He is an expert in Classical Greece as well as Rome's Late Republic and Early Imperial periods. Maty has served in the military as a conscript in Rhodesia and with the Territorial Army in the United Kingdom. He now spends his days writing in the Monashee Mountains of Canada and teaching e-learning courses at Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780500287651 |
| ISBN 10 | 0500287651 |
| Title | Ancient Athens on 5 Drachmas a Day |
| Author | Philip Matyszak |
| Series | Traveling On 5 |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Thames And Hudson |
| Year published | 2019-12-31 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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