Description
Book SynopsisConnop 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
