This vast study, first published between 1784 and 1818, and written
on an unprecedentedly large historical scale, was begun at the
urging of the author's friend Edward Gibbon. William Mitford (1744
1827), a scholar of private means, a magistrate and an MP, was
concerned for the preservation of national and military stability,
and he in part used his work to draw parallels between the rise of
Athenian democracy and the contemporary status of the British
constitution. This stance drew some criticism initially, but
Mitford's approach was later praised in the wake of the French
Revolution. The History, therefore, offers fascinating insights
into its own time as well as a study of ancient Greece. The four
volumes reissued here are from the uniform edition of 1808. Volume
1 covers the period from Greece's earliest foundations to the time
of Pericles and the end of the first Peloponnesian War in 445 BCE.
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