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Title: Athens from Alexander to Antony by Christian Habicht, Deborah Lucas Schneider ISBN: 0-674-05111-4 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $50.00

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Summary: A new narrative account of a fragmentary history.
Comment: This book is an attempt to produce a coherent narrative political history of Hellenistic Athens out of the existing literary, and, above all, epigraphical evidence, as it intends to funcition as an updating of the earlier study on the subject matter by W.S. Ferguson, _Hellenistic Athens_. The author seems to use the evidence soundly, as there are no attempts to prove too much on a flimsy foundations. The account that emerges is well-reasoned and coherent. However, there is no historical interpretation for the depressing history of the transformation of the Classical Democratic Athens into the "subject state with paltry politics"(Finley) of the Hellenistic Age. To that, one must search for the works by M.I. Finley (Politics in the Ancient World) and G.E.M. de Ste Croix(The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World), or then Paul Veyne's _Bread and Circus_(Le Pain et le Cirque), if one wants a non-_marxistisant_ interpretation .