Connop Thirlwall

"This judiciously compiled selection opens up to the modern reader the fascinating work of an almost forgotten historian of ancient Greece." "Connop Thirlwall's A 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 of excerpts from the original -each one edited to suit the conventions of modern scholarship. Peter Liddel's introduction places...