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 II. Historical Greece (cont.): 25. Illyrians, Macedonians, Paeonians; 26. Thracians and Greek colonies in Thrace; 27. Cyrene - Barka - Hesperides; 28. Pan-Hellenic festivals; 29. Lyric poetry; 30. Grecian affairs during the government of Peisistratus and his sons at Athens; 31. Grecian affairs after the expulsion of the Peisistratids; 32. Rise of the Persian empire; 33. Growth of the Persian empire; 34. Demokedes; 35. Ionic revolt; 36. From Ionic revolt to battle of Marathon; 37. Ionic philosophers.

Product details

• Authors: George Grote, Grote George
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2010
• EAN: 9781108009539
• ISBN: 978-1-108-00953-9
• No. of pages: 584
• 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