Bishop Thirlwall's History of Greece: A Selection

By Thirlwall and Connop Thirlwall

Book Overview

Connop Thirlwall's 'History of Greece' appeared in eight volumes between 1835 and 1844 and ran to a second edition (1846-52). This single volume provides a representative selection from the original eight. Each selection has been edited to suit the conventions of modern scholarship, while Liddel's introduction places Thirlwall's history in the context of nineteenth-century historiography of ancient Greece. Liddel also examines Thirlwall's free-thinking intellectual background, and analyses his disavowal of certainty, his use of material evidence and analogy, and his sophisticated understanding of the relations between ancient and modern.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904675298
• ISBN13: 9781904675297
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.6"