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

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

Grote, George

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Ancient GreeceAncient RomeUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 9353708699
ISBN13: 9789353708696
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 1 2019
Pages: 512
Weight: 1.42
Height: 1.14 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
How did a small cluster of poleis shape the Western imagination? In Volume V of George Grote's A History of Greece, the arguments get sharper and the stakes feel closer. Politics, passion, and hard evidence. Part of the classic history of Greece that helped define modern study of antiquity, this scholarly ancient history volume follows the classical Greece period with a lawyerly attention to sources and a storyteller's sense of consequence. Grote weighs competing traditions, tests the testimony that Herodotus and Thucydides readers know so well, and maps the pressures of the ancient Mediterranean world onto the lived realities of assemblies, courts, alliances, and war. If you care about ancient Greek democracy and Greek city-state politics, his steady voice brings debate, faction, and civic ideals into clear relief without flattening their complexity. Read today, Grote remains one of the Greek historiography classics: ambitious in scope, fearless in judgement, and foundational for anyone tracing the contours of classical Greek civilisation. For casual readers, it reads like a grand inquiry; for collectors, it anchors a shelf of classical Greek civilization, built to return to. This public domain reprint edition is also a satisfying volume for collectors building a complete multi-volume set, and a dependable reference for history students who need a rigorous narrative to stand beside modern scholarship. 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.

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