Fasti Hellenici
The Civil and Literary Chronology of Greece, from the LVth to the CXXIVth Olympiad

The revised 1827 second edition of an 1824 work providing a detailed chronology of Greece from 560 to 278 BCE.

Henry Fynes Clinton (Author)

9781108059602, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 September 2013

544 pages
29.7 x 21 x 2.8 cm, 1.29 kg

Educated at Christ Church, Oxford, Henry Fynes Clinton (1781–1852) distinguished himself as a classical scholar following an unsuccessful parliamentary career. He first published Fasti Hellenici in 1824; reissued here is the 1827 second edition, which contained a number of additions and corrections. The work received such a favourable reception that it was followed by further instalments in 1830 and 1834. His two-volume Fasti Romani (1840–5) is also reissued in this series. Featuring chronological tables of the civil, military and literary affairs of Greece from 560 to 278 BCE, Fasti Hellenici includes references in the extant sources to the rulers, philosophers and poets of the period. Alongside an essay on demography, the extensive appendices provide further information on kings, tyrants, orators, statesmen and other notables. A valuable contribution to the study of the ancient world, this work testifies to its author's immensely wide and methodical reading in Greek literature.

Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
Additions and corrections
Introduction
Tables BC 560–278
Appendix
Index.

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