Table of Contents

• Frontispiece: Connop Thirlwall
• Preface
• Introduction, by Peter P. Liddel
• Selections from A HISTORY OF GREECE by the Rev. Connop Thirlwall
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Inhabitants of Early Greece
• 3. History and Mythology
• 4. Colonisation and Culture
• 5. Periclean Athens
• 6. The Decline of Athens
• 7. Greece and Philip II
• 8. Alexander the Great
• 9. Hellenistic Greece
• 10. Greece under the Romans and beyond
• Appendix: On the Trial of Socrates
• Editor's Notes
• Index

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About the Author

Connop Thirlwall (1797–1875) was a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1818 to 1834, prior to a career in the Church. Peter P. Liddel is Lecturer in Ancient History in the University of Manchester.