Brill's companion to George Grote and the classical tradition

432 Pages·2014·2.112 MB·English

by  Dēmētriou, Kyriakos N., Grote, George

Brill’s Companion to George Grote and the Classical Tradition
Brill’s Companions to
Classical Reception
Series Editor
Kyriakos N. Demetriou
VOLUME 1
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Brill’s Companion to George Grote
and the Classical Tradition
Edited by
Kyriakos N. Demetriou
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Brill’s companion to George Grote and the classical tradition / edited by Kyriakos N. Demetriou.
  pages cm. — (Brill’s companions to classical reception, ISSN 2213-1426 ; volume 1)
 Includes bibliographical references and index.
 ISBN 978-90-04-26910-1 (hardback : acid-free paper) — ISBN 978-90-04-28049-6 (e-book)
1. Grote, George, 1794–1871—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Grote, George, 1794–1871—Influence.
3. Greece—Historiography. 4. Greece—Civilization—To 146 B.C.—Historiography. 5. Civilization,
Classical—Historiography. 6. Classicists—Great Britain—Biography. 7. Platonists—Great Britain—
Biography. 8. Historians—Great Britain—Biography. I. Demetriou, Kyriakos N. II. Title: Companion to
George Grote and the classical tradition.
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Contents
Notes on Contributors  vii
Introduction  1
Kyriakos N. Demetriou
1 George Grote, The Philosophic Radical and Politician  16
Bruce Kinzer
2 James Mill and George Grote: A Benthamite Defence of
“Theoretic Reform”  47
Antis Loizides
3 George Grote and Natural Religion  85
John R. Gibbins
4 Bentham, Mill, Grote, and An Analysis of the Influence of
Natural Religion on the Temporal Happiness of Mankind  117
Catherine Fuller †
5 A Regular Politician in Breeches: The Life and Work of
Harriet Lewin Grote  134
Sarah Richardson
6 Grote’s Athens: The Character of Democracy  161
James Kierstead
7 The Comparative Approach in Grote’s History of Greece  211
Peter Liddel
8 Grote’s Sparta/Sparta’s Grote  255
Paul Cartledge
9 Grote’s Plato  273
Catherine Zuckert
10 The Sophists in Context: George Grote’s Reappraisal  303
Giovanni Giorgini
vi contents
11 Grote on Alexander the Great  329
Pierre Briant
12 Grote on Aristotle’s Logic  366
Robin Smith
13 Grote’s Moral Philosophy and its Context  388
Jerome B. Schneewind
Appendix: George Grote on James Mill’s “Government”  405
Transcribed and edited by Antis Loizides
Index of Names and Subjects  413
Notes on Contributors
Pierre Briant
is Professor of History and Civilisation of the Achaemenid World and the
Empire of Alexander the Great at the Collège de France (1999 onwards),
Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Chicago, and founder of the
website achemenet.com. His most recent publications include: Alexandre des
Lumières: fragments d’histoire européenne
 (Gallimard, 2012); Alexander the
Great and his Empire, translated by Amélie Kuhrt (Princeton University
Press, 2010).
Paul Cartledge
is the A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture in the Faculty of Classics,
University of Cambridge, and Leventis Senior Research Fellow, Clare College.
He is the author, co-author, editor, and/or co-editor of well over 20 books,
including most recently After Thermopylae. The Oath of Plataea and the End
of the Graeco-Persian Wars (Oxford University Press, New York & Oxford,
2013) and (Introduction and Notes to) Tom Holland’s new translation of the
Histories of Herodotus. He wrote the Introduction to the reissue of M.O.B.
Caspari & J.M. Mitchell, eds, George Grote, A History of Greece From the Time
of Solon to 403 B.C. (Routledge, 2000). He co-edits two monograph series,
“Key Themes in Ancient History” (Cambridge University Press) and “Classical
Inter/Faces” (Bloomsbury). He is a holder of the Gold Cross of the Order of
Honour, conferred by the President of the Hellenic Republic, and is an
Honorary Citizen of Sparti (modern Sparta), Greece.
Catherine Fuller † 1947–2011
English Literature (graduating BA Hons at University College London 1989)
and then in Renaissance Studies (MA King’s College London 1991), joined the
Bentham Project, UCL, in 1993, beginning as a Research Assistant working on
Poor Laws: Vol. 1. In 1996 she was appointed as Editor of Volume 11 of
Bentham’s Correspondence, and in 1998 she was promoted to Research
Fellow. Correspondence, vol. 11 was published in September 2000. She also
co-edited Correspondence, vol. 12, which appeared in March 2006. The last
volume which Catherine produced was Church-of-Englandism and its
Catechism Examined, which she co-edited, published in 2011, and which is
perhaps the most impressive tribute of all to her skills as an editor.
viii notes on contributors
John R. Gibbins
retired from the post of Director of Postgraduate Research at the University
of Newcastle upon Tyne in 2007, and is now a Senior Member of Wolfson
College, Cambridge. He became resident as a Visiting Scholar in Cambridge in
1989 after completing his doctorate on “John Grote, Cambridge University,
and the Development of Victorian Thought,” at the University of Newcastle in
1988. John located the missing, and long searched for Grote Manuscripts, in
the possession of Lady Teresa Rothschild (née Mayor) the daughter of Robin
John Grote Mayor, the Cambridge Apostle, philosopher and civil servant
influential in the establishment of Teacher Training in Britain. All were
descended from the union of John Grote’s adopted niece, Alexandrina
Jessie Grote and Joseph Bickersteth Mayor who became John’ literary
executor and editor of his books and essays. John became an “assistant
archivist” at the Wren Library where the Mayor Papers now reside. The
manuscripts necessitated a rewrite of his thesis, which was published in 2007
by Imprint Academic, and fed into numerous essays, articles, dictionary
and encyclopaedia entries concerning John and his brother George Grote,
and the Mayor families, and further work on the history of philosophy, the
moral sciences and learning and teaching at the University of Cambridge.
This scholarly work runs parallel to other publishing fields in political theory,
contemporary politics, political culture and cultural studies, exemplified in
his co-founding and work for the journal Theory, Culture and Society (Sage).
John is an innovator in the field of knowledge networks, research ethics
and researcher management development, working as an advisor for various
Research Councils in the UK. His current project is entitled, Who are we?
A Short History of Western Civilization from the Ancient Greeks to the Present.
Giovanni Giorgini
is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Bologna and Visiting
Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
He is also Life Member of Clare Hall College, Cambridge, where he was
previously a Visiting Fellow. He is member and Past President of the
Collegium Politicum (a network of international scholars working on
ancient political thought). Giorgini is the author of three books: La città e il
tiranno. Il concetto di tirannide nella Grecia del VII–IV secolo a.C. (1993), an
examination of the evolution of the concept of tyranny in ancient Greece;
Liberalismi eretici (1999), a critical interpretation of some contemporary
political philosophers; I doni di Pandora. Filosofia, politica e storia nella Grecia
antica (2002), an exploration of some philosophical-political themes and
classical authors, such as Protagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides, Xenophon,