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The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization Kirkus Prize Nominee for Fiction (Finalist) (2015) walking a part—and shows howA magisterial account of how a tiny city state in ancient Greece became history's most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian. Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens celebrates the city state that transformed the world from the democratic revolution that marked its beginning, through the city's political and cultural golden age, to