I. In the age of Pericles (B. C. 444) there is that which seems to excite, in order to disappoint, curiosity. We are fully impressed with the brilliant variety of his gifts--with the influence he exercised over his times. He stands in the midst of great and immortal names, at the close of a heroic, and yet in the sudden meridian of a civilized age. And scarcely does he recede from our gaze, ere all the evils which only his genius could keep aloof, gather and close around the city which it was the object of his life not less to adorn as for festival than to crown as for command. It is almost as if, with Pericles, her very youth departed from Athens.
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[A] splendid bicenteneray edition....Thanks to Murray, we have now the most complete edition of Bulwer's reconstruction and interpretation of Athenian's rerum gestarum.
–Bryn Mawr Classical Review
The impressive bicentennial edition of this work by Oswyn Murray includes 63 pages of extracts transcribed from the manucripty of the unpublished third volume, and an editorial introduction, placing Bulwer in the tradition of Greek historiography.
–The Hindu --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
–Bryn Mawr Classical Review
The impressive bicentennial edition of this work by Oswyn Murray includes 63 pages of extracts transcribed from the manucripty of the unpublished third volume, and an editorial introduction, placing Bulwer in the tradition of Greek historiography.
–The Hindu --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Bulwer Lytton, first Baron Lytton (1803-1873) dandy and MP, was the most popular novelist of his day, a friend of Disraeli and Dickens, and author of The Last Days of Pompeii (1934) and many other novels and plays. Athens: Its Rise and Fall (1837) is his only historical work.
Oswyn Murray is a fellow of Balliol College, Oxford and Praefectus of Holywell Manor Graduate Centre. His books include Early Greece (1993) and The Oxford History of the Classical World (1986). --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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- Oedipus Tyrannus by Sophocles on page 447, page 461, and page 527
- Iliad and Odyssey by Homer on page 104, and page 108
- Works and Days (Oxford University Press academic monograph reprints) by Hesiod on page 109, and page 216
- Athens: Its Rise and Fall: With Views of the Literature, Philosophy, and Social Life of the Athenian People by Edward Bulwer Lytton in Front Matter
- The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides on page 413
- Athens: Its Rise and Fall: With Views of the Literature, Philosophy, and Social Life of the Athenian People by Edward Bulwer Lytton in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 34
- The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Volume IV: Oxford Essays and Notes 1863-1868 by Lesley Higgins in Front Matter
- The World's Greatest Books, Vol. 6 by J. A. Arthur Mee on page 74
- Surviving Greek Tragedy by Robert Garland in Back Matter
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