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.

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.

Inhalt

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.