A History Of Greece

Author : George Grote
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1017 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134593774

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A History of Greece by George Grote Pdf

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.

Author : Victor Parker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781405190336

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A History of Greece, 1300 to 30 BC by Victor Parker Pdf

A History of Greece: 1300‒30 BC, offers a comprehensive introduction to the foundational political history of Greece, from the late Mycenaean Age through to the death of Cleopatra VII, the last Hellenistic monarch of Egypt. Introduces textual and archaeological evidence used by historians to reconstruct historical events during Greece’s Bronze, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods Reveals the political and social structure of the Greek world in the late Mycenaean period (thirteenth century BC) through analysis of the Linear B tablets, the oldest surviving records in Greek Features numerous references to original source materials, including various fragmentary papyri, inscriptions, coins, and other literary sources Provides extensive coverage of the Hellenistic period, and covers areas excluded from most Greek history texts, including the Greek West Features judicious use of illustrations throughout, and considers instructors’ teaching needs by structuring the later sections to facilitate teaching a parallel course in Roman History Balances scholarship with a reader-friendly approach to create an accessible introduction to the political history of one of most remarkable ancient civilizations and sophisticated periods of world history

Author : Elaine Thomopoulos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216097488

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The History of Greece by Elaine Thomopoulos Pdf

This complete history of Greece documents ancient times to the present, giving specific attention to its emergence as a modern European nation after the destruction, disease, and death Greece suffered during World War II and the subsequent civil war. Modern Greece started as a monarchy in 1832, with just a fraction of the land it now encompasses. The nation of Greece finally forged its identity in the 19th and 20th centuries after emerging from 400 years of Ottoman domination. This book traces the development of Greece from the Minoan civilization of Crete to modern times, telling the story of how Greece added territory and experienced fierce growing pains—including coups, dictatorships, depressions, enormous influxes of immigrants, and wars—before evolving into today's modern democratic state. The History of Greece provides both an overview of Greece's early history as well as an examination of the difficulties that emerged in 2009 and 2010, such as its recent financial problems and social unrest. Quotes from Greek politicians, scholars, poets, and ordinary citizens are included to communicate Greece's national character.

Author : Richard Clogg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0521004799

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A Concise History of Greece by Richard Clogg Pdf

This book provides a concise, illustrated introduction to the history of modern Greece, with a new final chapter about Greek history and politics to the present day. 56 illustrations. 10 maps.

Author : James Heneage
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781615199495

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The Shortest History of Greece: The Odyssey of a Nation from Myth to Modernity (Shortest History) by James Heneage Pdf

Discover the cultural and political riches of Greece across 3,000 years, from classical might to modern rebirth. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read. Philosophy, art, democracy, language, even computers—the glories of Greek civilization have shaped our world even more profoundly than we realize. Pericles and the Parthenon may be familiar, but what of Epaminondas, the Theban general who saved the Greek world from Spartan tyranny? Alexander the Great’s fame has rolled down the centuries, but the golden Hellenistic Age that followed is largely forgotten. “Byzantine” conjures decadence and deadly intrigue, yet the thousand-year empire that ruled from Constantinople and saved Europe twice from invasion was, in fact, Greek. Greece’s modern chapter, too, tells of triumph and calamity—from liberation and expansion to schism, homegrown dictatorship, Nazi occupation, and civil war. Today’s nation is battered by austerity, encroaching climate change, and a refugee crisis—yet unwavering in its ancient values. James Heneage captures the full Grecian drama in this riveting, short history, revealing Greece as the wellspring of Western civilization—and a model that may yet save modern democracy.

Author : John Bagnell Bury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Greece
ISBN : HARVARD:TZ1UHK

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A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great by John Bagnell Bury Pdf

Author : Nancy H. Demand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : IND:32000001718453

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A History of Ancient Greece in Its Mediterranean Context by Nancy H. Demand Pdf

Author : Jeremy McInerney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 0500293376

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Ancient Greece by Jeremy McInerney Pdf

An extensively illustrated introduction to ancient Greek history

Author : Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0198730950

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A History of Greece to 322 B.C. by Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond Pdf

Traces the history of ancient Greece from political, social, military, and economic perspectives and discusses the development of the Greek culture

Author : Robin Waterfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Civilization, Ancient
ISBN : 9780198727880

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Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens by Robin Waterfield Pdf

A fascinating, accessible, and up-to-date history of the Ancient Greeks. Covering the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods, and centred around the disunity of the Greeks, their underlying cultural unity, and their eventual political unification.

Author : Sarah B. Pomeroy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132216651

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A Brief History of Ancient Greece by Sarah B. Pomeroy Pdf

The story of the ancient Greeks is one of the most improbable success stories in world history. A small group of people inhabiting a country poor in resources and divided into hundreds of quarreling states created one of the most remarkable civilizations ever. Comprehensive and balanced, A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society, and Culture, Second Edition is a shorter version of the authors' highly successful Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History, Second Edition (OUP, 2008). Four leading authorities on the classical world offer a lively and up-to-date account of Greek civilization and history in all its complexity and variety, covering the entire period from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic Era, and integrating the most recent research in archaeology, comparative anthropology, and social history. They show how the early Greeks borrowed from their neighbors but eventually developed a distinctive culture all their own, one that was marked by astonishing creativity, versatility, and resilience. Using physical evidence from archaeology, the written testimony of literary texts and inscriptions, and anthropological models based on comparative studies, this compact volume provides an account of the Greek world that is thoughtful and sophisticated yet accessible to students and general readers with little or no knowledge of Greece.

Author : George Grote
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0344353788

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History of Greece; Volume 1 by George Grote Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Rowena Loverance,Tim Wood
Publisher : Heinemann Library
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Greece
ISBN : 0600573877

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Ancient Greece by Rowena Loverance,Tim Wood Pdf

See Through History is a series of information books for 8-12 year olds. Each book is packed with information, quotations and captions providing a thorough description of the times. This book explores Ancient Greece. Each book in the series features acetate-based cutaway illustrations.

Author : James Hawes
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781615198153

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The Shortest History of England: Empire and Division from the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit - A Retelling for Our Times (Shortest History) by James Hawes Pdf

How the most powerful country in the UK was forged by invasion and conquest, and is fractured by its north-south divide. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read. England—begetter of parliaments and globe-spanning empires, star of beloved period dramas, and home of the House of Windsor—is not quite the stalwart island fortress that many of us imagine. Riven by an ancient fault line that predates even the Romans, its fate has ever been bound up with that of its neighbors; and for the past millennia, it has harbored a class system like nowhere else on Earth. This bracing tour of the most powerful country in the United Kingdom reveals an England repeatedly invaded and constantly reinvented—yet always fractured by its very own Mason-Dixon Line. It carries us swiftly through centuries of conflict between Crown and Parliament (starring the Magna Carta), America’s War of Independence, the rise and fall of empire, two World Wars, and England’s break from the EU. We discover: why the American colonists of 1776 believed that they were the true Anglo-Saxons how the British Empire was undermined from within why Winston Churchill said the UK could only be saved by splitting up England itself and how populism spawned Brexit and its “new elite.” The Shortest History of England brings all this and more to prescient life—offering the most direct, compelling route to understanding the country behind today’s headlines.

Author : Sarah B. Pomeroy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Greece
ISBN : 0199846049

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Ancient Greece by Sarah B. Pomeroy Pdf

A Political, Social, and Cultural History is a comprehensive and balanced history, covering the political, military, social, cultural, and economic history of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Era.