The Rise and Fall of Greek Civilization: A 20-Volume Anthology
Epic, History, Myth, and the Enduring Legacy of the Hellenic WorldBy John Bagnell Bury, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Arrian, Strabo, Plutarch, George Grote, Homer, Andrew Lang, E. Norman Gardiner, James Sir Donaldson, F. A. Wright, Alfred William Benn, H. A. Guerber, Albert Augustus Trever, Basil Edward Hammond, Ernest Arthur Gardner, E. M. Berens
Length631h 20m
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The Rise and Fall of Greek Civilization: A 20-Volume Anthology assembles an expansive record of the Hellenic world, tracing its emergence, political experiments, imperial conflicts, cultural achievements, and enduring afterlives. Epic, historiography, biography, geography, mythography, and modern historical interpretation coexist here, allowing heroic memory and critical inquiry to illuminate one another. Accounts of war and civic struggle stand beside reflections on religion, education, art, and social custom, making the collection both a narrative of Greek civilization and a study in the ways that civilization has been remembered. Its contributors span antiquity and modern scholarship. Classical witnesses bring the textures of lived political, military, and cultural experience, while later historians, classicists, and popular educators supply interpretive frameworks shaped by the development of modern historical method. Together, these voices place Greece within the traditions of epic poetry, democratic thought, imperial history, archaeological recovery, and Victorian-era classical scholarship. Their differences are a strength: competing emphases on leaders, institutions, peoples, and ideas reveal Greek history as a contested and continuously reconstructed field. Recommended for students, general readers, and devoted classicists, this anthology offers the rare advantage of encountering many genres and scholarly temperaments within one capacious volume set. It invites sustained comparison, supports historical study, and fosters a productive dialogue between ancient testimony and modern interpretation.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length631 hrs 20 mins
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Publish dateAug 1, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The History of Ancient Greece (Annotated)
26BOOK IV
2The Histories
27BOOK V
3Preface
28BOOK VI
4The History of the Peloponnesian War
29BOOK VII
5The First Book. (pt. 1)
30The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great
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6The First Book. (pt. 2)
31PREFACE.
7The First Book. (pt. 3)
32ARRIAN'S PREFACE.
8The First Book. (pt. 4)
33BOOK II.
9The First Book. (pt. 5)
34BOOK III.
10The First Book. (pt. 6)
35BOOK IV.
11The First Book. (pt. 7)
36BOOK V.
12The First Book. (pt. 8)
37BOOK VI.
13The First Book. (pt. 9)
38BOOK VII. (pt. 1)
14Hellenica: The History of the Peloponnesian War and Its Aftermath
39BOOK VII. (pt. 2)
15BOOK I
40BOOK VII. (pt. 3)
16BOOK II
41The Geography of Strabo
17BOOK III
42Volume 1
18BOOK IV
43BOOK I. (pt. 1)
19BOOK V
44BOOK I. (pt. 2)
20BOOK VI
45BOOK II. (pt. 1)
21BOOK VII
46BOOK II. (pt. 2)
22Anabasis: The March of the Ten Thousand
47BOOK III.
23BOOK I
48BOOK IV.
24BOOK II
49BOOK V.
25BOOK III
50BOOK VI.
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