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.): 83. Sicilian affairs (cont.); 84. Sicilian affairs after the death of the Elder Dionysius; 85. Sicilian affairs down to the close of the expedition of Timoleon; 86. Central Greece: the accession of Philip of Macedon to the birth of Alexander; 87. From the commencement of the Sacred War to that of the Olynthian War; 88. Euboic and Olynthian wars; 89. From the capture of Olynthus to the termination of the Sacred War by Philip; 90. From the peace of 346 B.C. to the death of Philip.

Product details

• Authors: George Grote, Grote George
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2010
• EAN: 9781108009607
• ISBN: 978-1-108-00960-7
• No. of pages: 756
• 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