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A HISTORY OF GREECE
TO THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT |
| By: |
John Bagnell Bury |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
1108082203 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781108082204 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION |
| Pub. date: |
16 December, 2014 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - Classics |
| Pages: |
952 |
| Description: |
This very readable 1900 work became a standard textbook on ancient Greek history to the death of Alexander the Great. |
| Synopsis: |
This book, originally published in 1900, was the major work of the classical historian J. B. Bury. It became a standard textbook on the topic of ancient Greek history to the death of Alexander the Great for almost a century, and in its updated form is still studied today. Bury had studied philosophy as well as classics at Trinity College, Dublin, and had travelled widely in Greece, but until the publication of this work was better known for his two-volume History of the Later Roman Empire (also reissued in this series), and many of his other works also deal with the Byzantine period. He describes in the preface his decision to limit the extent of his history: 'compression into a single volume often produces a more useful book'. This magisterial and very readable synthesis of political and military history encompasses nearly three millennia and the whole of the Mediterranean and Near East. |
| Illustrations: |
200 b/w illus. 17 maps |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |