A History Of Greece

This is a summary of George Grote's twelve-volume work, A History of Greece. The work covers the history of ancient Greece from the earliest times up to the death of Alexander the Great. Grote uses direct and clear language to take the reader from the legendary times of Greece up to the death of Alexander the Great, and explains important aspects of Greek political and philosophical life. The work also covers the important but outlying adventures of the Sicilian and Italian Greeks.

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'.