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description: Preface IntroductionGreeceHomerHesiod The archaic lyric &amp; iambusArchilochus (7th century B.C.)Tyrtaeus (7th century B.C.)Alcman (late 7th century B.C.)Hipponax (middle 6th century B.C.)Alcaeus (late 7th century-middle 6th century B.C.) Sappho (a contemporary of Alcaeus) Xenophanes (570-early 5th century B.C.) Mimnermus (2nd half of 7th century B.C.) Theognis (6th century B.C.)Solon (c.640-after 561 B.C.)Anacreon (c.570-?B.C.)Ibycus (6th century B.C.)Simonides (556-468 B.C.)Pindar (518-after 446 B.C.) Bacchylides (6th-5th centuries B.C.)Praxilla (5th century B.C.)Herodotus (490-c.425 B.C.)Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.) Thucydides (middle 5th century-399 B.C.?)Sophocles (496-406/5 B.C.)Euripides (485-406 B.C.)Aristophanes (455?-c.385 B.C.) Plato (427-341 B.C.) Menander (342-c.292 B.C.) Theophrastus (c.370-287 B.C.)Callimachus (c.310-240 B.C.)Apollonius Rhodius (c.295-215 B.C.)Theocritus (1st half of 3rd century B.C.)Herodas (c. 300-250 B.C.) Erinna (4th century B.C.?)From the Greek anthologyAnonymousPlatoAnyte (early 4th century B.C.?) Antipater of Sidon (2nd century B.C.)Diotimos NikarchosAsclepiades of Samos (c.320-?B.C.)Leonidas of Tarentum (1st half of 3rd century B.C.)Alexander AetolusDioskorides Meleager (c.100 B.C.)Glaukos Anonymous PhilodemosKrinagorasAutomedonAnonymousEruciusAntipater of Salonica (1st century B.C.-1st Century A.D.?)Marcus Argentarius (1st century B.C.-1st century A.D.?)Pompeius Lucilius NikarchosPaulus Silentiarius (6th century A.D.)Lucretius (98-c.55 B.C.) Catullus (c.84-c.54 B.C.) Horace (65-8 B.C.) Virgil (70-19 B.C.) Livy (59 B.C.-A.D.17)Propertius (c.50 B.C.-after 16 B.C.)Ovid (43 B.C.-A.D. 17) Tacitus (A.D. 56/7after 117) Petronius Arbiter (?-A.D. 65)Juvenal (55?-138?)Marcus Aurelius (121-180; Emperor, 161-180)Aurelius Augustinus (St Augustine (354-530)For futher readingPermissionsIndex
language: English
title: The Norton Book of Classical Literature
titlecomplete: The Norton Book of Classical Literature
genres: Classics, History, Classical Studies, Philosophy, Reference, Anthologies, Nonfiction, Literature, Poetry, School
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publisher: W.W. Norton & Company (NY/London)