Download or read book The Birth and Death of Athenian Democracy written by Clara Rising and published by . This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the peaceful summits of Delphi to the political turmoil that spawned democracy, the story of Athens becomes a paradigm, if not a photocopy predicting the history of western civilization. To understand Pericles, who lived its dreams, is a lesson in forbearance for our own time. Guts and imagination built "the glory that was Greece." Despite war and plague, defeat and disaster, an idea was born that is still the hope of mankind.