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.): 55. From the Peace of Nikias to the Olympic festival of Olympiad 90; 56. From the festival of Olympiad 90, down to the battle of Mantineia; 57. Sicilian affairs after the extinction of the Gelonian dynasty; 58. From the resolution of the Athenians to attack Syracuse, down to the first winter after their arrival in Sicily; 59. From the commencement of the siege of Syracuse down to the second expedition and the resumption of the general war; 60. From the resumption of direct hostilities down to the destruction of the Athenian armament in Sicily; 61. From the destruction of the Athenian armament in Sicily down to the oligarchical conspiracy of the Four Hundred at Athens.

Product details

• Authors: George Grote, Grote George
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2010
• EAN: 9781108009560
• ISBN: 978-1-108-00956-0
• No. of pages: 596
• 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