The Great Persian War and its Preliminaries

Abstract

MR. GRUNDY has laid students of Greek history under an obligation by this work, but the obligation would have been greater if the bulk and price of the book had been less. The author seems, indeed, to have fallen between two publics. The scholar, who knows the literature of the subject, ancient and modern, will complain that he here labours the obvious and there ignores the essential, that his acquaintance with Greek history is superficial and his estimate of authorities uncritical, that the pages which present anything at once new and valuable are few out of many. The general reader will require more literary skill and lucid order in the story, and cannot be blamed if he prefers Herodotus in his native simplicity.

The Great Persian War and its Preliminaries.

By G. B. Grundy. Pp. xiii + 590. (London: John Murray, 1901.) Price 21s. net.