Ancient Greece: The History of Classical Greece from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Hellenistic Age (Summarized Edition)
Enriched edition. Archaic to Classical: Persia, Sparta, Athens, and MacedonBy John Bagnell Bury
Length8h 57m
About this audiobook
In Ancient Greece: The History of Classical Greece from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Hellenistic Age, Bury joins lucid narrative to exacting documentation from the Bronze Age through the classical polis to the Hellenistic kingdoms. He charts colonization, constitutional change, the Persian and Peloponnesian wars, Macedonian ascendancy, and the post‑Alexander world, reading inscriptions and coinage against Herodotus and Thucydides. Composed in the early twentieth‑century positivist tradition, it privileges political and institutional history while situating art, religion, and thought. John Bagnell Bury (1861–1927), Irish classicist and historian, trained at Trinity College Dublin and later became Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge. Formed by German historicism and new archaeology from Schliemann to Evans, editor of Gibbon and scholar of Byzantium, he advanced history as a science and applied rigorous source criticism throughout. For students, instructors, and general readers, this remains a durable guide and a revealing document of its scholarly moment. Read it for clear frameworks, careful chronologies, and sober judgment, and pair it with recent archaeological syntheses to refresh details. Its core interpretations endure and provoke.
Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable—distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length8 hrs 57 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 3, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
6ANCIENT GREECE: The History of Classical Greece from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Hellenistic Age (pt. 2)
2Introduction
7ANCIENT GREECE: The History of Classical Greece from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Hellenistic Age (pt. 3)
3Synopsis
8ANCIENT GREECE: The History of Classical Greece from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Hellenistic Age (pt. 4)
4Historical Context
9Analysis
5ANCIENT GREECE: The History of Classical Greece from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Hellenistic Age (pt. 1)
10Reflection
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