The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece by Josiah Ober

The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece

The Princeton History of the Ancient World

Josiah Ober

464 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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A major new history of classical Greece—how it rose, how it fell, and what we can learn from itLord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor....

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