The History of Greece Paperback / softback
by William Mitford
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Classics series
Paperback / softback
Description
This vast study, first published between 1784 and 1818, and written on an unprecedentedly large historical scale, was begun at the urging of the author's friend Edward Gibbon.
William Mitford (1744-1827), a scholar of private means, a magistrate and an MP, was concerned for the preservation of national and military stability, and he in part used his work to draw parallels between the rise of Athenian democracy and the contemporary status of the British constitution.
This stance drew some criticism initially, but Mitford's approach was later praised in the wake of the French Revolution.
The History, therefore, offers fascinating insights into its own time as well as a study of ancient Greece.
The four volumes reissued here are from the uniform edition of 1808.
The second volume takes the story of events in Greece from the Thirty Years' Truce to 404 BCE and the end of the Peloponnesian War.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:566 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:31/10/2010
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- ISBN:9781108011051
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:566 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:31/10/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108011051
