From Democrats To Kings The Downfall Of Athens To The Epic Rise Of Alexander The Great

I really enjoyed From Democrats to Kings fascinating and exuberant on Ancient Athens, bringing their politics to life and right up to date, making Ancient Greece relevant for today. Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Young Stalin and Catherine The Great & Potemkin404 BC: Athens is exhausted at the end of a bloody war with Sparta and the mastership of Greece is left open for the taking. By 323BC, less than 100 years later, Athens, the rest of Greece, and a large part of the known world, has come under the control of a master of self-publicity and a model for despots for millennia to come: megas alexandros, Alexander the Great. Michael Scott tells the dramatic story of how, over the space of merely a generation, the ancient world was turned completely on its head, in a brutal power struggle whose outcome would define the world for centuries.