History of Greece Volume 4 George Grote 9781176689046 Books
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This is the sort of book that I tend to pass up because it's outdated. I mean, archaeology has come a long way since the 1870s, right? However, Grote's writing is so enthrallingly readable and memorable as to make me feel like most of my prior reading in this area (non-professional, but not exactly light) has been a waste of time. If you read, say, the Routledge History of the Ancient World volumes covering this period, you'll be up-to-date--provided you can retain any facts at all from the verbal oatmeal that those volumes' authors purvey. If you read Grote, however, you'll remember who these ancient Athenians were, and why they mattered. He's not the last person to read on this subject, but I'm finding that he provides an excellent starting point, helping me to contextualize folks like Herodotus and Thucydides, Kleisthenes and Solon, and to realize how much more sense modern Western political history makes sense when they're in the picture. (His description of the popular appeal of the oligarchical party at Athens, vs. the more truly democratic Pericles who was nevertheless scorned as being hard for poor people to relate to, brought back thoughts of the 2008 Presidential election.)
EDIT This is a review for the work "A History of Greece" by Cyril Robinson, audiobook narrated by Charlton Griffin. For reasons unknown, it's been redirected to a history of Greece work by George Grote.
Charlton Griffin is without a doubt my favorite audiobook reader, and one of the best there is. He vividly brings to life Greek history through Cyril Robinson's concise, yet highly detailed account.
Rather than skimming through events like a lecture course, skipping over some names, this history covers the topography and geography of Greece, the archaeological history of the peoples in the from the Minoans and Mycenaeans to the "dark" age and so on. Figures otherwise to remain obscure are given sufficient detail, such as Cylon, Agiselaos III, Epaminondas, and others.
Given in great details is not only the military campaigns and politics and society, but rich detail goes in to the art and culture of Athens, distinguishing it and justifying the strength of its influence, as well as the rather shocking revelations that the culture of mainland Greece was nearly lost to us, if it weren't for Alexander's conquests of the east, and the proliferation of Hellenic culture that was not only maintained, but endlessly imitated in pale imitation, and the somewhat lackluster achievements of the mainland Greeks compared to the Ionian Greeks.
But then comes Robinson's biases and odd statements regarding such things as the fall of Greece and the like. As in his "A History of Rome", he considers Hellenization to be somehow a corrupting influence upon men's bodies and souls, as if it were a narcotic drug. Much like he had accused Hellenized Romans as being responsible for a "moral degredation" in Rome in the late Republic period, he accuses an Orientalized-Hellenism of being some sort of rot upon the very essence or "manliness" of Greek men, and being responsible for corrupting the Greeks, then the Macedonians after Alexander, and so on
It's a rather ridiculous statement to make, though it's the first time I've ever heard it so I can't judge it beyond my initial preconception.
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