A History of Greece: Volume 8 (Cambridge Library Collection - Classics) - Softcover

Grote, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108009573 ISBN 13: 9781108009577

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative study of ancient Greece, George Grote's twelve-volume work, begun in 1846, established the shape of Greek history which still prevails in textbooks and popular accounts of the ancient world today. Grote employs direct and clear language to take the reader from the earliest times of legendary Greece to the death of Alexander and his generation, drawing upon epic poetry and legend, and examining the growth and decline of the Athenian democracy. The work provides explanations of Greek political constitutions and philosophy, and interwoven throughout are the important but outlying adventures of the Sicilian and Italian Greeks. Volume 8 takes the story from the overthrow of the Four Hundred in Athens to the death of Alkibiades in 404 BCE, and also contains chapters on drama and rhetoric, and on the philosophy of the Sophists and of Socrates.

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Book Description:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1108009573
• ISBN 13: 9781108009577
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 704