History of Greece

Klappentext Grote's classic twelve-volume work established the shape of Greek history which prevails in accounts of the ancient world today. Zusammenfassung One of the classic works of historical interpretation and scholarship! Grote's voluminous history of Greece remains required reading for historians and students of ancient Greece. Drawing upon Greek politics! philosophy! poetry and oratory! Grote takes the reader from legendary Greece to the death of Alexander the Great and his generation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. Legendary Greece: 1. Legends respecting the gods; 2. Legends relating to heroes and men; 3. Legend of the Iapetids; 4. Heroic legends; 5. Deucalion, Hellen, and the sons of Hellen; 6. The Aeolids; 7. The Pelopids; 8. Laconian and Messenian genealogies; 9. Arcadian genealogy; 10. Aeacus and his descendants; 11. Attic legends and genealogies; 12. Cretan legends; 13. Argonautic expedition; 14. Legends of Thebes; 15. Legend of Troy; 16. Grecian myths, as understood, felt and interpreted by the Greeks themselves; 17. The Grecian mythical vein compared with that of modern Europe.

Product details

• Authors: George Grote, Grote George
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2010
• EAN: 9781108009508
• ISBN: 978-1-108-00950-8
• No. of pages: 688
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Classics; A History of Greece 12 Volume Paperback Set
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory