Books by George Grote

Updated with a new introduction by Paul Cartledge, A History of Greece is both one of the greatest modern works of historical interpretation and scholarship and relevant to ongoing debates over democracy in our times.

This is the first of three volumes on Plato published in 1865 as a philosophical supplement to George Grote's authoritative History of Greece. It contains introductory material on Pre-Socratic philosophy and the Platonic canon and a preface to the project, and then focuses on Plato's early works.