by Michael Grant · Charles Scribner's Sons · tapa dura · ISBN 9780684185361
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«The Rise of the Greeks» is the historical essay by Michael Grant, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in hardback (391 pages, in English).
Michael Grant traces the history of Greek civilization between 750 and 480 BC, when the foundations of classical Greece were shaped. The account is regional: it shows how the city-states emerged and addresses the political, economic, artistic, and philosophical aspects, without losing sight of the relationship with other contemporary civilizations.
Includes bibliography (pages 361-370) and index.
Aimed at university students and readers interested in the history of ancient Greece.
Michael Grant was an English classicist, Professor of Humanity at the University of Edinburgh, numismatist, and author of numerous books on ancient history. His 1956 translation of Tacitus's Annals of Imperial Rome remains a standard of the work. Having studied and held a number of academic posts in the United Kingdom and the Middle East, he retired early to write full-time. He once described himself as "one of the very few freelancers in the field of ancient history: a rare phenomenon". As a populariser, his hallmarks were his prolific output and his unwillingness to oversimplify or talk down to his readership. He published over 70 works.
