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Grote's History of Greece is one of the classic works of historical
interpretation and scholarship. George Grote - banker, MP and a
founder of London University - was the first historian to give a
high value to the Greek creation of democracy, and this aspect of
his work is closely relevant to current debates about democracy in
our times. This abridgement of the original twelve volume work,
which was made in the early years of the century and published by
George Routledge and sons, is now available again and makes
accessible the essential Grote. In a new and original introduction,
based on the latest research into Grote and into Greek history,
Paul Cartledge places Grote's history in its intellectual context,
discusses its salient features and traces its subsequent reception
over the past century and a half.
'George Grote was one of the most remarkable minds of the early Victorian age Routledge's reissue prefaced with an illuminating new introduction by Paul Cartledge, provides the best chance that there is likely to be of bringing him to a modern readership.' - Richard Jenkins, London Review of Books
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'.
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 2 continues with the legendary
age of the Greeks, paying special attention to the Iliad and
Odyssey, and begins the story of historical Greece, setting the
geographical and chronological coordinates and introducing the
reader to the world of the Peloponnesus.
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 3 reviews the world which the
Greeks knew, and to which they sent colonies, and discusses their
neighbours around the Mediterranean and Black Sea, from the
Egyptians to the Scythians, and from Persia to what is now France.
Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative study of ancient
Greece, George Grote's twelve-volume work, begun in 1846,
established the shape 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 provides
explanations of Greek political constitutions and philosophy, and
interwoven throughout are the important but outlying adventures of
the Sicilian and Italian Greeks. Volume 4 continues the review of
Greek contacts in the wider Mediterranean world, and also covers
political developments, especially in Athens, from the rise of the
Peisistratids to the battle of Marathon.
Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative study of ancient
Greece, George Grote's twelve-volume work, begun in 1846,
established the shape 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 provides
explanations of Greek political constitutions and philosophy, and
interwoven throughout are the important but outlying adventures of
the Sicilian and Italian Greeks. Volume 5 deals with Greek history
from the battle of Marathon through the Persian Wars and
developments in Sicily down to the era of Perikles.
Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative study of ancient
Greece, George Grote's twelve-volume work, begun in 1846,
established the shape 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 provides
explanations of Greek political constitutions and philosophy, and
interwoven throughout are the important but outlying adventures of
the Sicilian and Italian Greeks. Volume 6 offers the history of
Greece from the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War in 431 BCE to the
Peace of Nikias.
Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative study of ancient
Greece, George Grote's twelve-volume work, begun in 1846,
established the shape 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 provides
explanations of Greek political constitutions and philosophy, and
interwoven throughout are the important but outlying adventures of
the Sicilian and Italian Greeks. Volume 7 continues the history of
the Peloponnesian War from the Peace of Nikias to the disaster of
the Sicilian Expedition and the coup d' tat of the Four Hundred at
Athens in 411 BCE.
Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative study of ancient
Greece, George Grote's twelve-volume work, begun in 1846,
established the shape 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 provides
explanations of Greek political constitutions and philosophy, and
interwoven throughout are the important but outlying adventures of
the Sicilian and Italian Greeks. Volume 8 takes the story from the
overthrow of the Four Hundred in Athens to the death of Alkibiades
in 404 BCE, and also contains chapters on drama and rhetoric, and
on the philosophy of the Sophists and of Socrates.
Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative study of ancient
Greece, George Grote's twelve-volume work, begun in 1846,
established the shape 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 provides
explanations of Greek political constitutions and philosophy, and
interwoven throughout are the important but outlying adventures of
the Sicilian and Italian Greeks. Volume 9 contains the story of
Cyrus the Younger and the epic march of the Ten Thousand Greeks,
and resumes the main historical narrative with the battle of Knidus
and the rebuilding of the Long Walls at Athens, and the Peace of
Antalkidas in 386 BCE.
Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative study of ancient
Greece, George Grote's twelve-volume work, begun in 1846,
established the shape 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 provides
explanations of Greek political constitutions and philosophy, and
interwoven throughout are the important but outlying adventures of
the Sicilian and Italian Greeks. Volume 10 covers the period from
the Peace of Antalkidas to the second battle of Mantinea, and also
takes up the story of Sicily from the destruction of the Athenian
Expedition to the period of the tyranny of the Elder Dionysius.
Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative study of ancient
Greece, George Grote's twelve-volume work, begun in 1846,
established the shape 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 provides
explanations of Greek political constitutions and philosophy, and
interwoven throughout are the important but outlying adventures of
the Sicilian and Italian Greeks. Volume 11 continues the history of
Sicily down to the expedition of Timoleon in 344 BCE, and then
returns to Greece and describes the rise of Philip of Macedon; the
book concludes with Philip's death in 336 BCE.
Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative study of ancient
Greece, George Grote's twelve-volume work, begun in 1846,
established the shape 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 provides
explanations of Greek political constitutions and philosophy, and
interwoven throughout are the important but outlying adventures of
the Sicilian and Italian Greeks. The final volume of Grote's
history begins with the reign of Alexander the Great, and ends with
a review of the Greek world at 'the close of the history of free
Hellas and Hellenism'. An index to all twelve volumes completes
this monumental work of scholarship.
Best known for his influential History of Greece, the historian and
politician George Grote (1794 1871) wrote this account of Plato's
dialogues as a philosophical supplement to the History. First
published in 1865 and written in dialogic form, Grote's account of
Plato's works includes substantial footnotes and marginalia. This
first volume focuses on Plato's early and transitional dialogues,
all of which feature Socrates. It also includes a preface to the
whole project which discusses the meaning and importance of
philosophy itself, and extensive introductory material on
pre-Socratic philosophy, the life of Plato and history of the
Platonic canon. With three volumes each running to over six hundred
pages, Grote's scholarship is formidably comprehensive. The
publication of Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates confirmed
him as one of the greatest authorities on Plato in the nineteenth
century.
Best known for his influential History of Greece, the historian and
politician George Grote (1794 1871) wrote this account of Plato's
dialogues as a philosophical supplement to the History. First
published in 1865 and written in dialogic form, Grote's account of
Plato's works includes substantial footnotes and marginalia. This
second volume covers the transitional and middle dialogues
including Gorgias and Symposium, as well as some of the later
works. Grote includes apocryphal works, as he relied on the order
and classification of Plato's works specified by the ancient Greek
scholar Thrasyllus of Mendes. With three volumes each running to
over six hundred pages, Grote's scholarship is formidably
comprehensive. The publication of Plato and the Other Companions of
Sokrates confirmed him as one of the greatest authorities on Plato
in the nineteenth century.
Best known for his influential History of Greece, the historian and
politician George Grote (1794 1871) wrote this account of Plato's
dialogues as a philosophical supplement to the History. First
published in 1865, Grote's account of Plato's works includes
substantial footnotes and marginalia. This third volume contains
discussion of Menexenus, Kleitophon, Timaeus and Kritias, as well
as extensive coverage of the Republic and the Laws. It also
contains the index to all three volumes, originally issued
separately. Grote includes apocryphal works, as he relied on the
order and classification of Plato's works specified by the ancient
Greek scholar Thrasyllus of Mendes. With three volumes each running
to over six hundred pages, Grote's scholarship is formidably
comprehensive. The publication of Plato and the Other Companions of
Sokrates confirmed him as one of the greatest authorities on Plato
in the nineteenth century.
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Essays shedding light on the increasingly open cultural debate on
the German past. Since unification in 1990, Germany has seen a boom
in the confrontation with memory, evident in a sharp increase in
novels, films, autobiographies, and other forms of public discourse
that engage with the long-term effects of National Socialism across
generations. Taking issue with the concept of
"Vergangenheitsbewaltigung," or coming to terms with the Nazi past,
which after 1945 guided nearly all debate on the topic, the
contributors to this volume view contemporary German culture
through the more dynamic concept of "memory contests," which sees
all forms of memory, public or private, as ongoing processes of
negotiating identity in the present. Touching on gender,
generations, memory and postmemory, trauma theory, ethnicity,
historiography, and family narrative, the contributions offer a
comprehensive picture of current German memory debates, in so doing
shedding light on the struggle to construct a Germanidentity
mindful of but not wholly defined by the horrors of National
Socialism and the Holocaust. Contributors: Peter Fritzsche, Anne
Fuchs, Elizabeth Boa, Stefan Willer, Chloe E. M. Paver, Matthias
Fiedler, J. J. Long, Dagmar C. G. Lorenz, Cathy S. Gelbin, Jennifer
E. Michaels, Mary Cosgrove, Andrew Plowman, Roger Woods. Anne Fuchs
is Professor of Modern German literature and Georg Grote is
Lecturer in German history, both at University College Dublin. Mary
Cosgrove is Lecturer in German at the University of Edinburgh.
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