History of Greece, Volume 01 (of 12)
This is the first volume of George Grote's History of Greece, the work of a London banker and radical politician that appeared between 1846 and 1856 and reshaped the study of the ancient world in England. Grote begins not with facts but with legends: the gods, the heroic genealogies of Argos, Thessaly, Sparta, Arcadia and Attica, the Argonauts, the sieges of Thebes and the war of Troy. His purpose is to treat these stories as the Greeks themselves believed them, as a self-contained mythical past, and the two closing chapters examine how that past was understood and interpreted by the Greeks and how it differs from the legendary matter of modern Europe. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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History of Greece, Volume 01 (of 12) by George Grote can be read online on Vinteuil, directly in your browser. The first chapter is free for everyone; the complete book is included in Vinteuil Reading ($4.99/month or $39.99/year) or yours forever for $2.99.
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Yes. History of Greece, Volume 01 (of 12) by George Grote is a public-domain work. Vinteuil offers a carefully prepared digital edition made for comfortable reading on screen.
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History of Greece, Volume 01 (of 12) by George Grote is filed under "History" in the Vinteuil library.
