This vast study, first published between 1784 and 1818, and written on an unprecedentedly large historical scale, was begun at the urging of the author's friend Edward Gibbon. William Mitford (1744–1827), a scholar, a magistrate and an MP, was concerned for the preservation of British national and military stability, and he in part used his work to draw parallels between the rise of Athenian democracy and the contemporary status of the British constitution. This stance drew some criticism initially, but Mitford's approach was later praised in the wake of the French Revolution. The History, therefore, offers fascinating insights into its own time as well as a study of ancient Greece. The four volumes reissued here are from the uniform edition of 1808, and follow a chronological sequence from the legendary beginnings of the Greek people to the death of Philip of Macedon in 336 BCE.

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Product details
- Date Published: October 2010
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108011082
- length: 2422 pages
- dimensions: 245 x 170 x 124 mm
- weight: 3.89kg
- availability: Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint
Table of Contents
Volume 1:
1. History of Greece, from the earliest accounts of the end of the Trojan War
2. Of the religion, government, jurisprudence, science, arts, commerce, and manners of the early Greeks
3. History of Greece from the Trojan War to the return of the Heracleids
4. History of the southern provinces of Greece, from the return of the Heracleids to the conquest of Messenia by the Lacedaemonians
5. Summary view of the state of the northern provinces of Greece ... from the Trojan war to the first public transaction with Persia
6. View of the eastern nations politically connected with Greece
7. Continuation of the history of Greece during the reign of Darius king of Persia
8. History of Greece, from the accession of Xerxes to the throne of Persia till the conclusion of the first campaign of that monarch's expedition against Greece
9. History of Greece, from the battle of Salamis to the conclusion of the Persian invasion
10. View of the people of the western countries politically connected with the Greeks, and of the Grecian settlements in Sicily and Italy
11. Affairs of Greece, from the conclusion of that commonly called the Persian war, to the establishment of security for the Greeks, against the barbarians, by the successes of Cimon
12. Affairs of Greece, from the establishment of its security against Persia, to the truce for thirty years between Athens and Lacedaemon. Volume 2:
13. Affairs of Greece, from the thirty-years truce to that commonly called the Peloponnesian war
14. Of the Peloponnesian war, from its commencement to the death of Pericles
15. Of the Peloponnesian war, from the death of Pericles, in the third year, to the application for peace from Lacedaemon in the seventh
16. Of the Peloponnesian war, from the application for peace from Lacedaemon, in the seventh year, to the conclusion of peace between Lacedaemon and Athens in the tenth year
17. Of the Peloponnesian war, during the peace between Lacedaemon and Athens
18. Of the affairs of Sicily, and of the Athenian expedition into Sicily
19. Affairs of Greece, from the conclusion of the Sicilian expedition, until the return of Alcibiades to Athens, in the twenty-fourth year of the Peloponnesian war
20. Affairs of Greece, from the return of Alcibiades to Athens, till the conclusion of the Peloponnesian war. Volume 3:
21. History of Athens, from the conclusion of the Peloponnesian war to the restoration of the democracy by Thrasybulus
22. Illustrations, from the orators and philosophers, of the civil history of Athens between the ages of Pericles and Demosthenes
23. Transactions of the Greeks in Asia and Thrace, from the conclusion of the Peloponnesian war
24. History of Lacedaemon, from the restoration of the Athenian democracy
25. Affairs of Greece, and transactions of the Greeks in Asia, from the establishment of the general confederacy against Lacedaemon, to the treaty between Lacedaemon and Persia
26. Affairs of Greece, from the Peace of Antalcidas till the depression of the Lacedaemonian power, and the elevation of Thebes
27. Affairs of Greece, from the elevation of Thebes, to the failure of the attempt to extend the Theban supremacy over Greece
28. Affairs of Greece, from the failure of the attempt to establish the supremacy of Thebes till the depression together of the aristocractial and democratical interests. Volume 4:
29. Affairs of the Grecian settlements in Sicily and Italy, from the Athenian invasion to the settlement of the Syracusan government under Dionysius and Hipparinus
30. Affairs of the Greeks in Sicily and Italy, from the settlement of the Syracusan government to the restoration of the Syracusan supremacy over the Sicilian, and its extension over the Italian, Greek cities
31. Affairs of the Sicilian and Italian Greek cities, from the establishment of the Syracusan empire to the death of Dionysius
32. Affairs
Author
William Mitford