Athens: Its Rise and Fall
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Athens: Its Rise and Fall
                                            
                            By Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
                            
                                3 Jul, 2020                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton was once Britain's most famous historical novelist, rivaling and outselling Dickens in his day. His best-known book was The Last Days of Pompeii, yet he was also responsible for a great work of history. Athens: Its Rise and F
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                                                Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton was once Britain's most famous historical novelist, rivaling and outselling Dickens in his day. His best-known book was The Last Days of Pompeii, yet he was also responsible for a great work of history. Athens: Its Rise and Fall, originally published in 1837, is the most important and readable of the Victorian histories of ancient Greece. It stands alongside Macauley and Carlyle as a great historical work of British Romanticism and anticipates the thinking of George Grote and John Stuart Mill on Greek history by over a decade. Less