A History of Greece, Volume 07 of 12, originally published in 1850

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. Cover......Page 1 Frontmatter......Page 6 Contents......Page 8 CHAPTER LV - From the Peace of Nikias to the Olympic Festival of Olympiad 90......Page 22 CHAPTER LVI - From the Festival of Olympiad 90, down to the Battle of Mantineia......Page 105 CHAPTER LVII - Sicilian Affairs after the Extinction of the Gelonian Dynasty......Page 183 CHAPTER LVIII - From the Resolution of the Athenians to attack Syracuse, down to the First Winter after their Arrival in Sicily......Page 244 CHAPTER LIX - From the commencement of the Siege of Syracuse by Nikias---down to the Second Athenian Expedition under Demosthenês, and the Resumption of the General War......Page 353 CHAPTER LX - From the Resumption of direct Hostilities between Athens and Sparta down to the Destruction of the Athenian Armament in Sicily......Page 415 CHAPTER LXI - From the Destruction of the Athenian Armament in Sicily down to the Oligarchical Conspiracy of the Four Hundred at Athens......Page 507 APPENDIX......Page 576 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'état of the Four Hundred at Athens in 411 BCE. Volume I: Preface; Part I. Legendary Greece; Volume II: Part I. Legendary Greece (cont.); Part II. Historical Greece; Volume III: Part II. Historical Greece (cont.); Volume IV: Part II. Historical Greece (cont.); Volume V: Part II. Historical Greece (cont.); Volume VI: Part II. Historical Greece (cont.); Volume VII: Part II. Historical Greece (cont.); Volume VIII: Part II. Historical Greece (cont.); Volume IX: Part II. Historical Greece (cont.); Volume X: Part II. Historical Greece (cont.); Volume XI: Part II. Historical Greece (cont.); Volume XII: Part II. Historical Greece (cont.); Index. 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 ...

Grote's classic twelve-volume work established the shape of Greek history which prevails in accounts of the ancient world today.