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A history of Greece; from the earliest period to the close of the generation contemporary with Alexander the Great (Volume VI)

A history of Greece; from the earliest period to the close of the generation contemporary with Alexander the Great (Volume VI)

Grote, George

Paperback

Ancient RomeGeneral Political ScienceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 935380115X
ISBN13: 9789353801151
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jul 1 2019
Pages: 456
Weight: 1.27
Height: 1.02 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Before Rome, Greece tested the possibilities of freedom. In these pages, power is debated as much as it is seized. Athens argues, votes, and fights. George Grote's monumental scholarly greek history remains one of the great Victorian achievements in historical writing: a full text classic that treats evidence, institutions, and personalities with equal seriousness. This volume vi edition follows the pressures that shape athenian democracy history and the hard bargains of greek city-state politics, as alliances form, fracture, and reform. Read it as a herodotus thucydides companion, attentive to what the sources say and to what they leave unsaid, and as a classical studies reference for anyone tracing classical greece 5th century into the unsettled decades of greece before alexander. Grote wrote with the conviction that ideas have consequences, and his judgements helped define how modern readers understand the ancient world and the long arc toward macedonian expansion in greece. 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. Ideal for marginal notes and seminar debate, it illuminates the competing visions of citizenship, empire, and law that still shadow political life in libraries, classrooms, and private collections. For the curious general reader it offers gripping argument and clear narrative; for the classic-literature collector it serves as an ancient history course text and a reliable plutarch lives background, grounding biography in the civic realities that produced it.

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