A history of Greece
Edition: Digitally printed version.
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
ISBN-13: 9781108009508; 9781108009515; 9781108009522; 9781108009539; 9781108009546; 9781108009553; 9781108009560; 9781108009577; 9781108009584; 9781108009591; 9781108009607; 9781108009614
Description: Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative Victorian study of ancient Greece, George Grote's twelve-volume work, begun in 1846, established the view 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 explains Greek political ...
Notes: This edition first publ.: London : John Murray, 1846-1856.
Table of contents: title: Volume I: Preface; Part I. Legendary Greece; Volume II: Part I. Legendary Greece (cont.); Part II. Historical Greece; Volume III: Part II. Historical Greece (cont.); Volume IV: Part II. Historical Greece (cont.); Volume V: Part II. Historical Greece (cont.); Volume VI: Part II. Historical Greece (cont.); Volume VII: Part II. Historical Greece (cont.); Volume VIII: Part II. Historical Greece (cont.); Volume IX: Part II. Historical Greece (cont.); Volume X: Part II. Historical Greece (cont.); Volume XI: Part II. Historical Greece (cont.); Volume XII: Part II. Historical Greece (cont.); Index.