Story of Athens

<p>A leading authority in the field Phillip Harding presents the very first English translations of the six Athenian writers known as the Atthidographers.</p><p>In his vivid and detailed history Harding examines the remaining fragments of these historical writers' work – in chronological order – and how these writings dating from the fifth and fourth century BC reveal an invaluable wealth of information about early Athenian history legend religion customs and anecdotes.</p><p>Harding also goes on to study how these histories of Athens and its people were the source for later surviving historians such as Plutarch and Diodorus.</p><p>With the aid of linking text and detailed annotation anyone with an interest in Athenian history classical Greece need look no further.</p>