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)

9781108009560, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 April 2010

596 pages, 2 maps
21.6 x 3.1 x 14 cm, 0.68 kg

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 7 continues the history of the Peloponnesian War from the Peace of Nikias to the disaster of the Sicilian Expedition and the coup d'état of the Four Hundred at Athens in 411 BCE.

Part II. Historical Greece (cont.): 55. From the Peace of Nikias to the Olympic festival of Olympiad 90
56. From the festival of Olympiad 90, down to the battle of Mantineia
57. Sicilian affairs after the extinction of the Gelonian dynasty
58. From the resolution of the Athenians to attack Syracuse, down to the first winter after their arrival in Sicily
59. From the commencement of the siege of Syracuse down to the second expedition and the resumption of the general war
60. From the resumption of direct hostilities down to the destruction of the Athenian armament in Sicily
61. From the destruction of the Athenian armament in Sicily down to the oligarchical conspiracy of the Four Hundred at Athens.

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