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A history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. With supplementary chapters on the history of literature and art

A history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. With supplementary chapters on the history of literature and art

Smith, William

Paperback

Art HistoryAncient Greece

ISBN10: 9353801591
ISBN13: 9789353801595
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jul 1 2019
Pages: 742
Weight: 2.04
Height: 1.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
From myth-shadowed beginnings to imperial eclipse, Greece shaped the world we still inhabit. Maps the rise and fall. William Smith's A history of Greece is a complete Greek history reference and an exacting ancient history survey, written with the clarity of a classical antiquity textbook yet paced for pleasure. It follows the thread of Archaic and Classical Greece through the rivalries of Athens, Sparta, and their neighbours, making Greek city-states politics intelligible without flattening their drama. Campaigns and turning points in the ancient Greece wars are set beside the sources that framed them, from Herodotus and Thucydides to later historians, and the narrative carries forward through the Alexander the Great era to Greece to Roman conquest. Supplementary chapters open out into Greek literature and art, tracing how language, theatre, sculpture, and thought travelled alongside power. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. For a university ancient history course, it serves as a dependable classics students study guide; for the armchair traveller, it is a lucid companion to the ancient Mediterranean. A landmark Victorian synthesis, it remains a rewarding way to see how the classical past was first organised for modern readers, and why it still matters on the shelf. Ideal for revisiting familiar legends with firmer dates, or for building a first timeline, it balances narrative sweep with scholarly restraint across two millennia.

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