Greece II
Athens may be the oldest city in Europe. It is certainly the oldest that is still significant. There were settlements on the Acropolis before the Greeks arrived, and, although the Athenians may have slightly exaggerated in claiming that their citadel was never abandoned in the Greek Dark Age brought on by the so-called Dorian Invasion, they are more or less right that they maintained some kind of polity throughout that grim period. Whether they can survive the new Dark Age, brought on not by more primitive northern Greeks–or still more primitive invaders from the Middle East–but by Athenian politicians who...