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Connop Thirlwall’s 'History of Greece' appeared in eight volumes between 1835 and 1844 and ran to a second edition (1846–52). This single volume provides a representative selection from the original eight. Each selection has been edited to suit the conventions of modern scholarship, while Liddel's introduction places Thirlwall’s history in the context of nineteenth-century historiography of ancient Greece. Liddel also examines Thirlwall’s free-thinking intellectual background, and analyses his disavowal of certainty, his use of material evidence and analogy, and his sophisticated understanding of the relations between ancient and modern.

Table of Contents
  • Frontispiece: Connop Thirlwall
  • Preface
  • Introduction, by Peter P. Liddel
  • Selections from A HISTORY OF GREECE by the Rev. Connop Thirlwall
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Inhabitants of Early Greece
  • 3. History and Mythology
  • 4. Colonisation and Culture
  • 5. Periclean Athens
  • 6. The Decline of Athens
  • 7. Greece and Philip II
  • 8. Alexander the Great
  • 9. Hellenistic Greece
  • 10. Greece under the Romans and beyond
  • Appendix: On the Trial of Socrates
  • Editor's Notes
  • Index

Bishop Thirlwall's History of Greece: A Selection

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      Publisher: Liverpool University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 19/10/2007
      ISBN13: 9781904675297, 978-1904675297
      ISBN10: 1904675298
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Connop Thirlwall’s 'History of Greece' appeared in eight volumes between 1835 and 1844 and ran to a second edition (1846–52). This single volume provides a representative selection from the original eight. Each selection has been edited to suit the conventions of modern scholarship, while Liddel's introduction places Thirlwall’s history in the context of nineteenth-century historiography of ancient Greece. Liddel also examines Thirlwall’s free-thinking intellectual background, and analyses his disavowal of certainty, his use of material evidence and analogy, and his sophisticated understanding of the relations between ancient and modern.

      Table of Contents
      • Frontispiece: Connop Thirlwall
      • Preface
      • Introduction, by Peter P. Liddel
      • Selections from A HISTORY OF GREECE by the Rev. Connop Thirlwall
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. The Inhabitants of Early Greece
      • 3. History and Mythology
      • 4. Colonisation and Culture
      • 5. Periclean Athens
      • 6. The Decline of Athens
      • 7. Greece and Philip II
      • 8. Alexander the Great
      • 9. Hellenistic Greece
      • 10. Greece under the Romans and beyond
      • Appendix: On the Trial of Socrates
      • Editor's Notes
      • Index

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