A History of Greece

Grote's classic twelve-volume work established the shape of Greek history which prevails in accounts of the ancient world today.

George Grote (Author)

9781108009522, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 April 2010

580 pages, 2 maps
21.6 x 14 x 3 cm, 0.66 kg

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 constitutions and philosophy, and interwoven throughout are the important but outlying adventures of the Sicilian and Italian Greeks. Volume 3 reviews the world which the Greeks knew, and to which they sent colonies, and discusses their neighbours around the Mediterranean and Black Sea, from the Egyptians to the Scythians, and from Persia to what is now France.

Part II. Historical Greece (cont.): 9. Corinth, Sikyon, and Megara
10. Ionic portion of Hellas
11. Solonian laws and constitution
12. Euboea – Cyclades
13. Asiatic Ionians
14. Aeolic Greeks in Asia
15. Asiatic Dorians
16. Natives of Asia Minor with whom the Greeks became connected
17. Lydians – Medes – Cimmerians – Scythians
18. Phenicians
19. Assyrians – Babylon
20. Egyptians
21. Decline of the Phenicians
22. Western colonies of Greece
23. Grecian colonies in and near Epirus
24. Akarnanians – Epirots.

Subject Areas: Ancient history: to c 500 CE [HBLA]