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Four - The Persian Destruction of Athens

Sources and Archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2021

By
John McKesson Camp
Edited by
Sylvian Fachard  and
Edward M. Harris
Sylvian Fachard
Affiliation:
University of Lausanne
Edward M. Harris
Affiliation:
University of Durham
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Summary

The chapter studies the Persian destruction of Athens in 480 B.C. (Acropolis, Agora, Kerameikos) and the city’s spectacular economic and political recovery in less than one generation.

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Athenian Acropolis and AgoraPersian sackdestructionrecovery
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The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient Greek World
Integrating the Archaeological and Literary Evidence
 , pp. 70 - 84
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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