A History of Greece 12 Volume Paperback Set

by George Grote, Patricia Baker

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. John Stuart Mill said of Grote that 'his familiarity both with the great highways and the obscurest bypaths of Grecian literature and antiquity, has seldom been equalled', and the book remains required reading for historians and students of ancient Greece and Greek philosophy.

Genres: History, Ancient History, Greece, Nonfiction

680 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1971

About the author

George Grote was an English political radical and classical historian. He is now best known for his major work, the voluminous History of Greece.

Reviews

[Craig Herbertson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have the twelve volume Everyman set. It's a comprehensive work lacking the genius of a Gibbon but maintaining a solid academic standard throughout.

[Josh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best book on Ancient Greece

The best book I ever read about the Ancient Greeks. Grote discusses the subject and its ramifications with relevance to the events of all time!