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 II. Historical Greece (cont.): 38. From the battle of Marathon to the march of Xerxes against Greece; 39. Proceedings in Greece from the battle of Marathon to the time of the battle of Thermopylae; 40. Battles of Thermopylae and Artemisium; 41. Battle of Salamis; 42. Battles of Plataea and Mykale; 43. Events in Sicily down to the expulsion of the Gelonian dynasty; 44. From the battles of Plataea and Mykale down to the deaths of Themistokles and Aristeides; 45. Proceedings of the confederacy under Athens as head; 46. Constitutional and juducial changes at Athens under Perikles.

Product details

• Authors: George Grote, Grote George
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2010
• EAN: 9781108009546
• ISBN: 978-1-108-00954-6
• No. of pages: 580
• 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