A History of Greece
To the Death of Alexander the Great

This very readable 1900 work became a standard textbook on ancient Greek history to the death of Alexander the Great.

John Bagnell Bury (Author)

9781108082204, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 5 March 2015

952 pages, 200 b/w illus. 17 maps
21.5 x 14 x 5.5 cm, 1.05 kg

This book, originally published in 1900, was the major work of the classical historian J. B. Bury. It became a standard textbook on the topic of ancient Greek history to the death of Alexander the Great for almost a century, and in its updated form is still studied today. Bury had studied philosophy as well as classics at Trinity College, Dublin, and had travelled widely in Greece, but until the publication of this work was better known for his two-volume History of the Later Roman Empire (also reissued in this series), and many of his other works also deal with the Byzantine period. He describes in the preface his decision to limit the extent of his history: 'compression into a single volume often produces a more useful book'. This magisterial and very readable synthesis of political and military history encompasses nearly three millennia and the whole of the Mediterranean and Near East.

Preface
Introductory
1. The beginnings of Greece and the heroic age
2. The expansion of Greece
3. Growth of Sparta
4. The union of Attica and the foundation of the Athenian democracy
5. Growth of Athens
6. The advance of Persia to the Aegean
7. The perils of Greece
8. The foundation of the Athenian empire
9. The Athenian empire under the guidance of Pericles
10. The war of Athens with the Peloponnesians
11. The decline and downfall of the Athenian empire
12. The Spartan supremacy and the Persian war
13. The revival of Athens and her second league
14. The hegemony of Thebes
15. The Syracusan empire and the struggle with Carthage
16. Rise of Macedonia
17. The conquest of Persia
18. The conquest of the far east
Chronological table
Notes and references
Index.

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