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Anthony Everitt

Biography

Anthony Everitt

Anthony Everitt, visiting professor in the visual and performing arts at Nottingham Trent University, has written extensively on European culture, and is the author of Cicero and Augustus. He has served as secretary general of the Arts Council of Great Britain. Everitt lives near Colchester, England’s first recorded town, founded by the Romans.

Anthony Everitt

Books by Anthony Everitt

The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization
by Anthony Everitt - History, Nonfiction

The mystery of Athens is simple: how did a tiny community of 200,000 souls or so manage to give birth to towering geniuses across the range of human endeavor, create one of greatest civilizations in history, and lay the foundations of our own contemporary intellectual universe? Although its story is less well known than that of Rome, the allure of Athens would go on to impact Alexander the Great, the Romans, as well as the Founding Fathers. The Athenians laid the foundations of the house in which we live today, and Anthony Everitt brings its story to life.