Table of Contents

Part I. Legendary Greece (cont.): 18. Closing events of legendary Greece; 19. Application of chronology to Grecian legend; 20. State of society and manners as exhibited in Grecian legend; 21. Grecian epic – Homeric poems; Part II. Historical Greece: 1. General geography and limits of Greece; 2. The Hellenic people generally in the early historical times; 3. Members of the Hellenic aggregate, separately taken; 4. Earliest historical view of the Peloponnesus; 5. Aetolo-Dorian immigration into Peloponnesus; 6. Laws and discipline of Lycurgus at Sparta; 7. First and Second Messenian Wars; 8. Conquests of Sparta towards Arcadia and Argolis.

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Grote's classic twelve-volume work established the shape of Greek history which prevails in accounts of the ancient world today.