The History of Greece

Volume 2 extends from the administration of Pericles to the final conclusion of the Peloponnesian War in 404 BCE.

William Mitford (Author)

9781108011051, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 October 2010

566 pages
24.4 x 17 x 2.9 cm, 0.89 kg

This vast study, first published between 1784 and 1818, and written on an unprecedentedly large historical scale, was begun at the urging of the author's friend Edward Gibbon. William Mitford (1744–1827), a scholar of private means, a magistrate and an MP, was concerned for the preservation of national and military stability, and he in part used his work to draw parallels between the rise of Athenian democracy and the contemporary status of the British constitution. This stance drew some criticism initially, but Mitford's approach was later praised in the wake of the French Revolution. The History, therefore, offers fascinating insights into its own time as well as a study of ancient Greece. The four volumes reissued here are from the uniform edition of 1808. The second volume takes the story of events in Greece from the Thirty Years' Truce to 404 BCE and the end of the Peloponnesian War.

13. Affairs of Greece, from the thirty-years truce to that commonly called the Peloponnesian war
14. Of the Peloponnesian war, from its commencement to the death of Pericles
15. Of the Peloponnesian war, from the death of Pericles, in the third year, to the application for peace from Lacedaemon in the seventh
16. Of the Peloponnesian war, from the application for peace from Lacedaemon, in the seventh year, to the conclusion of peace between Lacedaemon and Athens in the tenth year
17. Of the Peloponnesian war, during the peace between Lacedaemon and Athens
18. Of the affairs of Sicily, and of the Athenian expedition into Sicily
19. Affairs of Greece, from the conclusion of the Sicilian expedition, until the return of Alcibiades to Athens, in the twenty-fourth year of the Peloponnesian war
20. Affairs of Greece, from the return of Alcibiades to Athens, till the conclusion of the Peloponnesian war.

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