(Translators are listed in parentheses after the author of each work)
Editor’s Introduction
Chronological Outline of Classical Greek Civilization
Part One. Cosmogonies and Cosmologies
THE CREATION (From Theogony) – Hesiod (H. G. Evelyn-White)
THE FIVE AGES (From Works and Days) – Hesiod (H. G. Evelyn-White)
PROMETHEUS (From Theogony) – Hesiod (H. G. Evelyn-White)
ZEUS (From Oedipus Tyrannus) – Sophocles (Robert M. Whitelaw)
DIONYSUS (From The Bacchae) – Euripides (Gilbert Murray)
THE EARTH MOTHER – Homeric Hymn (P. B. shelley)
MINOR DEITIES – Archias, Anyte (J. W. Mackail)
THE TRUE GOD (Fragments) – Xenophanes (John Burnet)
THE WORD (Fragments) – Heraclitus (John Burnet)
THE REAL (Fragments) – Parmenides (John Burnet)
LOVE AND STRIFE (Fragments) – Empedocles (John Burnet)
GOD AND THE WORLD (Timaeus) – Plato (Benjamin Jowett)
THE FIRST CAUSE (From Metaphysics) – Aristotle (W. D. Ross)
Part Two. The Hero
THE EPIC HERO:
THE DEATH OF HECTOR (From The Iliad) – Homer (Alexander Pope)
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD (From The Odyssey) – Homer (E. V. Rieu)
THE PATRIOT:
TWO EPITAPHS – Simonides (J. W. Mackail)
THE ATHLETE:
TWO ODES: Pythia 10; Nemea 6 – Pindar (Richmond Lattimore)
THE TRAGIC HERO:
A TRILOGY: THE ORESTEIA: AGAMEMNON; CHOEPHOROE; EUMENIDES – Aeschylus (George Thomson)
THE GREAT MAN (From Nicomachaen Ethics) – Aristotle (W. D. Ross)
THE HAPPY MAN (From Nicomachaen Ethics) – Aristotle (W. D. Ross)
THE PHILOSOPHIC HERO (From Phaedo) – Plato (Benjamin Jowett)
THE ENGINEER:
ARCHIMEDES (From Book of Histories) – Tzestzes (Ivor Thomas)
Part Three. Nature
PHYSICS:
THE FIRST SCIENCE (From Metaphysics) – Aristotle (W. D. Ross)
NATURE (From Physics) – Aristotle (R. P. Hardie, R. K. Gaye)
MATHEMATICS:
NUMBER AND PROPORTION (From Elements) – Euclid (Ivor Thomas)
MEASUREMENT OF THE EARTH (From On the Circular Motion of the Heavenly Bodies) – Cleomedes (Ivor Thomas)
MEDICINE:
ON AIRS, WATERS AND PLACES – Hippocrates (Francis Adams)
GROWTH (From On the Natural Faculties) – Galen (Arthur John Brock)
Part Four. Man
ETHICS:
MAN (From Antigone) – Sophocles (D. Fitts, R. Fitzgerald)
HUMAN IMPERFECTION – Simonides (Gilbert Highet)
SELF-LOVE (From Nichomachean Ethics) – Aristotle (W. D. Ross)
NATURE AND CULTURE – Antiphon (R. Webster)
SELF-CONTROL (From The Manual) – Epictetus (P.E. Matheson)
LOVE (From Antigone) – Sophocles (D. Fitts, R. Fitzgerald)
EROS (From Symposium) – Plato (Benjamin Jowett)
LITERARY FORMS:
LYRIC:
Alcaeus (C. M. Bowra)
Anacreon (T. F. Higham)
Meleager (J. w. Mackail)
Sappho (Walter Headlam, E. M. Cox)
EPITAPH:
Simonides, Callimachus, Palladas, etc. (J. W. Mackail)
PASTORAL:
IDYLL II: THE SORCERESS – Theocritus (R. C. Trevelyan)
FABLE:
THE OWL AND THE BIRDS; THE MAN AND THE SATYR; THE GOODS AND THE ILLS – Aesop
CHARACTER STUDIES:
Tactlessness; Superstitiousness – Theophrastus (J. M. Edmonds)
BIOGRAPHY:
(From Lives of the Sophists): Polemo; Hermogenes – Philostratus (Wilmer Cave Wright)
Part Five. Society
TYPES OF STATES (From Politics) – Aristotle (W. D. Ross)
THE JUST SOCIETY (From Laws) – Plato (Benjamin Jowett)
PUBLIC EDUCATION (From Laws) – Plato (Benjamin Jowett)
UTOPIA (The Birds) – Aristophanes
PLATO IN SICILY (From Epistle VII) – Plato
THE SICILIAN EXPEDITION (FromPeloponnesian War) – Thucydides – Benjamin Jowett
1. An Account of the Loss of the Essex
2. Excerpt from the Journal of the Surry
Extracts: Memories and Apocrypha
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