A History of Greece

Paperback Engels 2010 9781108009508
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Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative Victorian study of ancient Greece, George Grote's twelve-volume work, begun in 1846, established the view 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 explains Greek political constitutions and philosophy, and interwoven throughout are the important but outlying adventures of the Sicilian and Italian Greeks. Volume 1 focuses on the legendary Greece, the times of epic poetry and legend, and explains how what we read today as myth was once, as Grote describes it, 'accredited history which the first Greeks could conceive or relish of their past time'.

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ISBN13:9781108009508
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:688

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Preface; Part I. Legendary Greece: 1. Legends respecting the gods; 2. Legends relating to heroes and men; 3. Legend of the Iapetids; 4. Heroic legends; 5. Deucalion, Hellen, and the sons of Hellen; 6. The Aeolids; 7. The Pelopids; 8. Laconian and Messenian genealogies; 9. Arcadian genealogy; 10. Aeacus and his descendants; 11. Attic legends and genealogies; 12. Cretan legends; 13. Argonautic expedition; 14. Legends of Thebes; 15. Legend of Troy; 16. Grecian myths, as understood, felt and interpreted by the Greeks themselves; 17. The Grecian mythical vein compared with that of modern Europe.

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