The ancient world: justice, heroism, and responsibility.
Series: Sources of civilization in the West
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Published: 1966
Place of publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J
Language: eng; mul
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Classical literature -- Translations into English; Civilization, Ancient -- Literary collections
Table of contents: title: The ancient Near East. Introduction -- The Code of Hammurabi (selections) -- The Book of the Dead (selections) -- Ikhnaton’s hymn to the Sun-god (selections) -- David and Bathsheba (from the Second Book of Samuel, XI-XII: 12) -- The Greek heroic age. Introduction -- The Iliad : the ransoming of Hector -- Hesiod : works and days (27-280) -- Fifth-century Greece. Introduction -- Herodotus: The defense of Thermopylae -- Pindar : the eighth Pythian ode -- Sophocles : the Antigone (1-525) -- Athenian crisis and rebirth. Introduction -- Thucydides : Athens, Pericles, and the plague -- Aristophanes : The clouds (selections) -- Plato : Socrates’ defense (selections) -- Plato : the simile of the cave (from the Republic) -- Aristotle : “Greatness of soul” (from Nicomachean ethics) -- Between Greece and Rome. Introduction -- Polybius : the “mixed constitution” at Rome (selections from the Histories) -- Roman beginnings. Introduction -- Plutarch : portrait of Cato (selections) -- Terence : the self-tormentor (53-167) -- Rome: the consequences of power. Introduction -- Lucretius : the nature of the universe (3.1-93) -- Catullus : the sense of love and loss (selections from Carmina) -- Cicero : idealism, politics, and eloquence (selections from Pro Archia, De Officiis, Pro Sestio, and Philippics) -- Sallust : the strife of factions (from Bellum Iugurthinum) -- Rome : despair and a new hope -- Introduction -- Virgil : The Georgics and the Aeneid (selections) -- Horace : shadow and substance (from Carmina) -- Livy : the history of Rome (selections from Ab Urbe Condita) -- Rome : the disillusions of empire. Introduction -- Seneca : human liberty (from Epistulae Morales) -- Juvenal : farewell to Rome (from the Satires) -- Tacitus : empire and servitude (selections from the Annals and Agricola) -- Epilogue : the rule of Roman law. Introduction -- Cicero : De Offciis (selections) -- Justinian : the institutes (selections).