George Grote

thumb| George Grote (17 November 1794 – 18 June 1871) was an English political radical and classical historian. He is now best known for his major work, the voluminous History of Greece. Quotes History of Greece (1846–1856) New York: Harper & Brothers, 1880 Along with the gods are found various monstrous natures, ultra-human and extra-human, who cannot with propriety be called gods, but who partake with gods and men in the attributes of freewill, conscious agency, and susceptibility of pleasure and pain.Such as the Harpies, the Gorgons, the Grææ, the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, Echidna, Sphinx, Chimera, Chrysaor, Pegasus, the Cyclôpes, the Centaurs, etc. The first acts of...the great mythical cycle describe the proceedings of these gigantic agents — the crash and collision of certain terrific and overboiling forces, which are ultimately reduced to obedience, or chained up, or extinguished, under the more orderly government of Zeus, who supplants his less capable predecessors, and acquires precedence and supremacy over gods and men — subject, however, to certain social restraints from the chief gods and goddesses around him, as well as to the custom of occasionally convoking and consulting the divine agora. Vol. 1, pt. 1, ch. 1, pp. 1–2 Notes External links Category:1794 births Category:1871 deaths Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:Historians from England Category:Classical scholars Category:People from Kent Category:People educated at Charterhouse School