Classics of Greek literature
Subtitle: from the literary beginnings to the second century A.D.
Publisher: Philosophical Library
Published: 1963
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; grc
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 385
Subjects: Greek literature -- Translations into English.
Description: An anthology of classical Greek poetry, drama, history, philosophy, oratory, and satire, in English translation.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 385.
Table of contents: title: Homer. The Iliad -- Hesiod. The spread of evil -- Advice to farmers -- Tyrtaeus. Homage to martial youth -- Theognis. Morality and manners -- Sappho. Sappho dead -- Evening lullaby -- Thoughts on love -- Sweet apple -- Flowers -- Hymn to Aphrodite -- Anacreon. Youth decays -- Take the cash, and let the credit go -- Pindar. Glorification of Theoxenos -- Elysian bliss -- Theocritus. Daphnis -- A cure for love -- Bion. Lament for Adonis -- Moschus. Bion is dead! -- Aeschylus. The Persians -- Sophocles. Electra -- Euripides. Iphigenia in Tauris -- Aristophanes. The birds -- Herodotus. History of the Persian Wars -- Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War -- Xenophon. Book III : Anabasis - A council of Greek generals -- Plato. Apology -- Aristotle. The Nicomachean ethics -- Epictetus. Discourses -- The Encheiridion -- Demosthenes. the oration of Demosthenes on the crown -- Aeschines. The oration of Aeschines against Ctesiphon -- Lucian. Dialogues of the gods : I -- Dialogues of the sea-gods : II -- Dialogues of the dead : I.