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)

9781108009591, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 April 2010

760 pages, 5 maps
21.6 x 3.8 x 14 cm, 0.87 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 10 covers the period from the Peace of Antalkidas to the second battle of Mantinea, and also takes up the story of Sicily from the destruction of the Athenian Expedition to the period of the tyranny of the Elder Dionysius.

Preface
Part II. Historical Greece (cont.): 76. From the peace of Antalkidas down to the subjugation of Olynthus by Sparta
77. From the subjugation of Olynthus by Sparta down to the congress at Sparta, 371 B.C.
78. Battle of Leuctra and its consequences
79. From the foundation of Messene and Megalopolis to the death of Pelopidas
80. From the death of Pelopidas to the battle of Mantinea
81. Sicilian affairs after the destruction of the Athenian armament before Syracuse
82. Sicily during the despotism of the Elder Dionysius at Syracuse.

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