George Grote
historical figure · 4 works · 7 mentions · 10 anchored passages · author page
Mr. Grote · Grote
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Historian and philosophic Radical named alongside Bentham and Molesworth.
Neither the democratic toryism nor the socialistic liberalism of to-day is the philosophic radicalism of Bentham, of Grote, or of Molesworth.
The philosophic Radicals, Grote, Roebuck, and Molesworth, were ardent disciples of Bentham.
the learning of George Grote (1846-56) was used, or misused, to deduce from the annals of the Athenian democracy conclusions in support of philosophic radicalism.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Historian cited for his theory of the collective, clan-based authorship of Homeric poetry.
Grote’s theory of the Homeric poetry, taken in a mass (ii.
Grote has suggested, they lived too much in full view of their subjects for their humble state to command much respect when the belief in their sacredness had been lost.
Ancient Law
Historian, author of the History of Greece, cited as an authority on early Greek institutions.
Grote, in his History of Greece, “is not a law-maker, but a judge.
Grote, in the second part and ninth chapter of his History, has fully described the mode in which society gradually clothed itself with a different character from that delineated by Homer.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Historian cited on the priority of verse over prose.
Grote, speaking of the Elegiacs of Solon, and of the natural priority of verse to prose, says (History of Greece, iii.