{"product_id":"a-history-of-greece-paperback-9781108009508","title":"A History of Greece (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108009508","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA History of Greece\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGrote's classic twelve-volume work established the shape of Greek history which prevails in accounts of the ancient world today.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGeorge Grote (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108009508, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 April 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e688 pages, 1 b\/w illus.  1 map\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.5 cm, 0.78 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWidely 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 constitutions and philosophy, and interwoven throughout are the important but outlying adventures of the Sicilian and Italian Greeks. Volume 1 focuses on the legendary Greece, the times of epic poetry and legend, and explains how what we read today as myth was once, as Grote describes it, 'accredited history which the first Greeks could conceive or relish of their past time'.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Legendary Greece: 1. Legends respecting the gods\u003cbr\u003e 2. Legends relating to heroes and men\u003cbr\u003e 3. Legend of the Iapetids\u003cbr\u003e 4. Heroic legends\u003cbr\u003e 5. Deucalion, Hellen, and the sons of Hellen\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Aeolids\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Pelopids\u003cbr\u003e 8. Laconian and Messenian genealogies\u003cbr\u003e 9. Arcadian genealogy\u003cbr\u003e 10. Aeacus and his descendants\u003cbr\u003e 11. Attic legends and genealogies\u003cbr\u003e 12. Cretan legends\u003cbr\u003e 13. Argonautic expedition\u003cbr\u003e 14. Legends of Thebes\u003cbr\u003e 15. Legend of Troy\u003cbr\u003e 16. Grecian myths, as understood, felt and interpreted by the Greeks themselves\u003cbr\u003e 17. The Grecian mythical vein compared with that of modern Europe.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Ancient history: to c 500 CE [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Ancient history: to c 500 CE\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Ancient%20history:%20to%20c%20500%20CE%20%5BHBLA%5D%22\"\u003eHBLA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45912968331544,"sku":"9781108009508","price":45.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108009508i.jpg?v=1694867466","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-history-of-greece-paperback-9781108009508","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}