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)

9781108009607, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 April 2010

756 pages
21.6 x 3.8 x 14 cm, 0.86 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 11 continues the history of Sicily down to the expedition of Timoleon in 344 BCE, and then returns to Greece and describes the rise of Philip of Macedon; the book concludes with Philip's death in 336 BCE.

Preface
Part II. Historical Greece (cont.): 83. Sicilian affairs (cont.)
84. Sicilian affairs after the death of the Elder Dionysius
85. Sicilian affairs down to the close of the expedition of Timoleon
86. Central Greece: the accession of Philip of Macedon to the birth of Alexander
87. From the commencement of the Sacred War to that of the Olynthian War
88. Euboic and Olynthian wars
89. From the capture of Olynthus to the termination of the Sacred War by Philip
90. From the peace of 346 B.C. to the death of Philip.

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