Classics in Translation, Volume I: Greek Literature

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TABLE OF CONTENTS GREEK CULTURE: AN ESSAY, by Walter R. Agard 3 THE ILIAD OF HOMER, translated by Alston H. Chase and William G. Perry, Jr. 13 THE WRATH OF A.CHILLES-THERSITES-THE DEEDS OF DIOMEDES-THE FAREWELL OF HECTOR TO ANDROMACHE-THE EMBASSY TO ACHILLES-THE DEEDS OF PATROCLUS-THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES-THE KILLING OF HECTOR -PRIAM RANSOMS HECTOR'S BODY THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER, translated by Reuben A. Brower 49 THE BARD TO THE MUSE-THE DIVINE PLAN FOR ODYSSEUS' RETURN-THE SUITORS HEAR THE STORY OF TROY-TELEMACHUS AT THE PALACE OF MENELAUS AND HELEN-CALYPSO PROMISES TO SEND ODYSSEUS ON HIS WAYTHE WRECK OF ODYSSEUS' RAFT-QDYSSEUS' WELCOME IN THE LAND OF THE PHAEACIANS-THE PALACE OF ALCINOUS-THE DINNER IN ALCINOUS' PALACE -THE CYCLOPS-CIRCE-ODYSSEUS' VISIT TO mE WORLD OF THE DEAD-THE SIRENS' SONG-oDYSSEUS' MEETING WITH THE SWINEHERD, EUMAEUSODYSSEUS IN HIS OWN HOUSE-THE NIGHT BEFORE THE KILLING OF THE SUIT· ORS-THE BATTLE WITH THE SUITORS-PENELOPE RECOGNIZES ODYSSEUS THE HOMERIC HYMN TO HERMES, translated by Norman O. Brown SELECTIONS FROM HESIOD'S WORKS AND DAYS, translated by Violet Zielke THE FIVE AGES OF MAN-THE HAWK AND THE NIGHTINGALE-JUSTICESUMMER -MAXIMS OF CONDUCT 81 88 LYRIC POETRY, translated by Warren R. Castle and L. R. Lind 92 ARCHILOCHUS 0 Heart, Be Strong-The Better Part 94 ALCMAN Old Age-Sleep 94 MIMNERMUS The Sun 95 SOLON The Works of Mortal Pride Endure not Long 95 ALCAEUS To Sappho-Drinking Song 95 SAPPHO To a Philistine Woman-Passion-Letter to Atthis-Flower Song 95 THEOGNIS On Bad Company 96 SIMONIDES For the Greeks Who Died at Plataea 96 xii TABLE OF CONTENTS HIPPONAX On Marriage 96 XENOPHANES Pythagoras and the Dog-On Ease and Comfort 97 PINDAR The First Olympian-To Agesias 0/ Syracuse-Music Hath Charms-What Is A Man?-The Fifth Nemean-Elysium 97 AMPHIS The Solace of Art 100 ZENODOTUS (?) On a Statue of Love 101 CALLIMACHUS I Loathe All Common Things 101 ASCLEPIADES To a Recalcitrant Virgin 101 THEOCRITUS The First Idyll 101 ANTIPATER OF SIDON On the Fall of Corinth 102 ANONYMOUS Nature and Man 103 MELEAGER To a Bee-Spring Song-To a Grasshopper-To Zenophile Asleep-To Heliodora, Dead 103 PHILODEMUS Moonlight 104 EUENUS The Vine to the Goat 104 JULIUS POLYAENUS On the Brevity of Hope 104 MARCUS ARGENTARIUS Reading Hesiod-I Live a Splendid Life 104 PTOLEMAEUS On Astronomy 104 PALLADAS On Life and Death 105 DAMASCIUS For a Slave Girl 105 RUFINUS To a Flirt 105 ANONYMOUS On a Child Untimely Dead 105 THE PRE·SOCRATIC PHILOSOPHERS, translated by Herbert M. Howe 106 THE IONIAN MONISTS-THE PYTHAGOREANS-THE ELEATICS-THE PLURALISTS -THE ATOMISTS-THE SOPHISTS SELECTIONS FROM HERODOTUS' THE HISTORIES, translated by Paul MacKendrick 111 HOW GYGES GAINED THE KINGDOM OF LYDIA-HOW ARION WAS SAVED BY A DOLPHIN-HOW SOLON PUT CROESUS IN HIS PLACE-HOW CYRUS CAPTURED CROESUS AND SET HIM FREE-HOW THE EGYPTIANS EMBALM THEIR DEAD-HOW RHAMPSINITUS REWARDED THE THIEF-HOW CHEOPS BUILT HIS PYRA· MID--HOW THE PERSIANS DEBATED FORMS OF GOVERNMENT-HOW THE ATHENIANS WON THE BATTLE OF MARATHON-HOW HIPPOCLIDES DANCED AWAY HIS MARRIAGE-HOW XERXES BRIDGED THE HELLESPONT-HOW XERXES NUMBERED HIS HOST-HOW ATHENS BECAME THE SAVIOR OF GREECE-HOW LEONIDAS AND HIS SPARTANS FELL GLORIOUSLY AT THERMOPYLAE-HOW THE ATHENIANS WON THE BATTLE OF SALAMIS THE AGAMEMNON OF AESCHYLUS, translated by Louis MacNeice 131 TABLE OF CONTENTS xiii THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES, translated by Maurice F. Neufeld 155 THE MEDEA OF EURIPIDES, translated by Walter R. Agard 174 THE FROGS OF ARISTOPHANES, translated by John G. Hawthorne 192 THE CONSTITUTION OF ATHENS BY THE "OLD OLIGARCH," translated by Paul MacKendrick 223 SELECTIONS FROM THUCYDIDES' HISTORY, translated by Gerald F. Else 231 PREFACE: THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF GREECE-THE FUNERAL ORATION OF PERICLES AND THE PLAGUE-REVOLUTION IN THE GREEK CITIES--THE MELIAN DIALOGUE-THE END OF THE WAR IN SICILY THE ATTIC ORATORS, translated by H. Lamar Crosby 264 ANTIPHON On the Murder of Herodes 265 ANDOCIDES On the Mysteries 269 LYSIAS Against Eratosthenes 274 ISOCRATES The Areopagiticus 278 AESCHINES Against Ctesiphon 282 DEMOSTHENES The Third Philippic-On the Crown 286 LYCURGUS Against Leocrates 296 HYPERIDES The Epitaphius 299 THE GREEK SCIENTISTS, translated by Herbert M. Howe 305 HIPPOCRATES The "Sacred" Disease-The Methods and Origins of Medicine -A Public Health Report-The Physician's...