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 Part I. Legendary Greece (cont.): 18. Closing events of legendary Greece; 19. Application of chronology to Grecian legend; 20. State of society and manners as exhibited in Grecian legend; 21. Grecian epic - Homeric poems; Part II. Historical Greece: 1. General geography and limits of Greece; 2. The Hellenic people generally in the early historical times; 3. Members of the Hellenic aggregate, separately taken; 4. Earliest historical view of the Peloponnesus; 5. Aetolo-Dorian immigration into Peloponnesus; 6. Laws and discipline of Lycurgus at Sparta; 7. First and Second Messenian Wars; 8. Conquests of Sparta towards Arcadia and Argolis.

Product details

• Authors: George Grote, Grote George
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2010
• EAN: 9781108009515
• ISBN: 978-1-108-00951-5
• No. of pages: 652
• 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