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History of Greece, Volume 01 (of 12) — George Grote

History of Greece, Volume 01 (of 12)

George Grote

  • History
  • Book language: English
  • 555 pages

The first volume of George Grote's twelve-part History of Greece. It covers legendary Greece and early Greek history through the reign of Peisistratus at Athens. It is worth hearing for its careful narrative and critical use of sources, setting myths and early traditions in a broad historical frame.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. HISTORY OF GREECE.
  2. CONTENTS VOL. I.
  3. CHAPTER I. LEGENDS RESPECTING THE GODS.
  4. CHAPTER II. LEGENDS RELATING TO HEROES AND MEN.
  5. CHAPTER III. LEGEND OF THE IAPETIDS.
  6. CHAPTER IV. HEROIC LEGENDS.—GENEALOGY OF ARGOS.
  7. CHAPTER V. DEUKALION, HELLEN, AND SONS OF HELLEN.
  8. CHAPTER VI. THE ÆOLIDS, OR SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF ÆOLUS.
  9. CHAPTER VII. THE PELOPIDS.
  10. CHAPTER VIII. LACONIAN AND MESSENIAN GENEALOGIES.
  11. CHAPTER IX. ARCADIAN GENEALOGY.
  12. CHAPTER X. ÆAKUS AND HIS DESCENDANTS.—ÆGINA, SALAMIS, AND PHTHIA.
  13. CHAPTER XI. ATTIC LEGENDS AND GENEALOGIES.
  14. CHAPTER XII. KRETAN LEGENDS.—MINOS AND HIS FAMILY.
  15. CHAPTER XIII. ARGONAUTIC EXPEDITION.
  16. CHAPTER XIV. LEGENDS OF THEBES.
  17. CHAPTER XV. LEGEND OF TROY.
  18. CHAPTER XVI. GRECIAN MYTHES, AS UNDERSTOOD, FELT AND INTERPRETED BY THE GREEKS THEMSELVES.
  19. CHAPTER XVII. THE GRECIAN MYTHICAL VEIN COMPARED WITH THAT OF MODERN EUROPE.
  20. FOOTNOTES
  21. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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