A History of Greece

A History of Greece

by George Grote
A History of Greece

A History of Greece

by George Grote

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Overview

Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative study of ancient Greece, George Grote's twelve-volume work, begun in 1846, established the shape of Greek history which still prevails in textbooks and popular accounts of the ancient world today. Grote employs direct and clear language to take the reader from the earliest times of legendary Greece to the death of Alexander and his generation, drawing upon epic poetry and legend, and examining the growth and decline of the Athenian democracy. The work provides explanations of Greek political constitutions and philosophy, and interwoven throughout are the important but outlying adventures of the Sicilian and Italian Greeks. Volume 4 continues the review of Greek contacts in the wider Mediterranean world, and also covers political developments, especially in Athens, from the rise of the Peisistratids to the battle of Marathon.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781108009515
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 04/01/2010
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics
Pages: 652
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.50(d)

Table of Contents

Part II. Historical Greece (cont.): 47. From the Thirty Years' Truce to the blockade of Potidea; 48. From the blockade of Potidea down to the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian War; 49. From the beginning of the second year down to the end of the third year of the Peloponnesian War; 50. From the commencement of the fourth year of the Peloponnesian War down to the revolutionary commotions at Korkyra; 51. From the troubles in Korkyra down to the end of the sixth year; 52. Seventh year of the war; 53. Eighth year of the war.
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