The classical Greek reader / edited by Kenneth J. Atchity ; associate editor, Rosemary McKenna.

Contributor Atchity, Kenneth John.

Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Descriptionxxxiv, 442 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Note:Most of the original works included are excerpted.

Note:Part One. Preclassical. The Iliad / Homer -- The Odyssey / Homer -- Theogony / Hesiod -- Works and days / Hesiod -- Homeric hymns: Hymn to Aphrodite / Anonymous -- Lyrics / Archilochos -- Water / Thales of Miletus -- Lyrics / Terpandros -- Lyrics / Alkman -- Lyrics / Alcaeus -- Lyrics and law codes / Solon -- Lyrics / Sappho -- Lyrics / Stesichoros -- Lyrics / Anacreon -- Lyrics / Simonides -- On nature / Anaximander -- Air / Anaximenes -- Lyrics / Theognis -- Fables / Aesop -- The Golden verses / Pythagoras -- On nature and Lyrics / Xenophanes.

Note:Part Two. Classical. Olympian ode 2 / Pindar -- Lyric fragments / Korinna -- The Eumenides / Aeschylus -- Funeral oration (from Thucydides) / Pericles -- On nature / Heraclitus -- On nature / Parmenides -- Lyric fragments / Telesilla -- Fragments and On nature / Empedocles -- On nature / Anaxagoras -- Fragments / Protagoras -- Antigone / Sophocles -- The History / Herodotus -- On motion / Zeno -- Alcestis / Euripides -- The Physician's oath / Hippocrates -- The Peloponnesian war / Thucydides -- Speech to the Athenians (from Plato's Apology) / Socrates -- Lyrics / Praxilla -- Lysistrata / Aristophanes -- The Olympiacus / Lysias -- Oration to Philip / Isocrates -- The Republic / Plato -- Anabasis / Xenophon -- On the defense of fortified positions / Aeneas the Tactician -- Agains Timarchus / Aeschines -- Poetics / Aristotle -- On the crown / Demosthenes -- The Characters / "Theophrastus" Tyrtamos -- The Dyskolos / Menander -- Letter to Herodotus / Epicurus -- The Elements of geometry / Euclid -- Lyrics / Leonidas of Tarentum -- Thyrsis: the death of Daphnis / Theocritos -- The Voyage of Argo (Argonautica) / Apollonius of Rhodes -- The Sand-reckoner / Archimedes.

Note:Part Three. Postclassical. The General history of the wars of the Romans / Polybius -- The Geography / Strabo -- Lyrics / Meleager -- The Roman antiquities / Dionysius of Halicarnassus -- Materia medica / Dioscorides -- On the sublime / "Longinus" / The Encheiridion (handbook) / Epictetus -- The Life of Alexander the Great and Against going into debt / Plutarch -- The Hunters of Euboea / Dio(n) Chrysostomos -- Lyrics and Dialogues / Lucian -- The Almagest / Ptolemy -- The Library / Apollodorus -- The Acropolis of Athens / Pausanias -- On the natural faculties / Galen -- True Happiness / Plotinus -- True happiness / Plotinus -- Daphnis & Chloe / Longus -- The Sophists at dinner / Athenaeus -- Aethiopica / Heliodorus.

Note:Greek Gods / Heroes, Roman Counterparts -- Landmarks of Greek history -- Glossary -- Sources and Recommendations.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Original Version NoteOriginally published: New York : Holt, 1996.

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