Athens has, at different times and from different points of view,
been cited as a model of moderate democracy and triumphant
humanism, or, on the contrary, as an illustration of the disorders
due to demagoguery and misguided imperialism. Professor Mosse looks
beyond these judgments to discuss the exceptional destiny of Athens
- a city which for two centuries dominated the Eastern
Mediterranean world, but then faded from the political scene when
Rome extended its control over the whole Mediterranean. The history
of Athenian democracy does not end in 404 BC, as is sometimes
thought, when the city capitulated to Sparta at the end of its
Golden Age. Athens in Decline, first published in 1973,
demonstrates how the city experienced another seventy-five years of
greatness, and survived, more or less curtailed, under Macedonian
domination. She examines the reasons for the final collapse and
follows the stages of a decline which was not wholly without
grandeur.
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