CliffsNotes on Greek Classics
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN
9780544181878
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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Copyright
  4. Greek Classics
  5. Introduction
  6. Greek Epic Poetry
  7. Homer
  8. Life and Background
  9. Homer and the Epic
  10. The Iliad
  11. Background of the Trojan War
  12. List of Characters
  13. Book 1: Achilles and Agamemnon Quarrel
  14. Book 2: The Parade of the Two Armies
  15. Book 3: A Truce and a Duel
  16. Book 4: Pandarus Breaks the Truce
  17. Book 5: Diomedes’ Glory as a Warrior
  18. Book 6: Hector Returns to Troy
  19. Books 7 & 8: The Trojans Reach the Achaian Wall
  20. Book 9: An Offer of Reconciliation
  21. Book 10: Spying at Night
  22. Book 11: Achilles Watches the Achaian Defeat
  23. Books 12–15: Trojan Successes
  24. Book 16: Patroclus Fights and Is Killed
  25. Book 17: The Fight for Patroclus’ Body
  26. Book 18: Achilles’ New Armor
  27. Book 19: Achilles Rejoins the Achaians
  28. Book 20: The Gods Go to War
  29. Book 21: Achilles Battles the River
  30. Book 22: The Death of Hector
  31. Book 23: Patroclus’ Funeral and the Games
  32. Book 24: Priam and Achilles
  33. The Fall of Troy
  34. The Odyssey
  35. List of Characters
  36. Book 1: Athena Advises Telemachus
  37. Book 2: The Assembly of Ithaca Meets
  38. Book 3: Telemachus and Nestor
  39. Book 4: Telemachus and Menelaus
  40. Book 5: Odysseus Departs from Calypso
  41. Books 6–8: Odysseus Among the Phaeacians
  42. Book 9: The Wanderings of Odysseus—The Cicones, the Lotus-Eaters, and the Cyclops
  43. Book 10: The Wanderings of Odysseus—Aeolus, the Laestrygonians, and Circe
  44. Book 11: The Wanderings of Odysseus—The Descent into Hades
  45. Book 12: The Wanderings of Odysseus—The Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, and the Cattle of the Sun
  46. Books 13–16: Odysseus Returns to Ithaca
  47. Book 17: Odysseus Goes into the Town
  48. Book 18: The Fight Between Odysseus and Irus; The Suitors Torment Odysseus
  49. Book 19: Penelope Meets Odysseus Disguised as a Beggar; Eurycleia Recognizes Odysseus
  50. Book 20: Odysseus Lays His Plans; The Suitors Ignore Their Final Warning
  51. Book 21: The Contest to String the Bow of Odysseus
  52. Book 22: Odysseus Kills the Suitors
  53. Book 23: Odysseus and Penelope Are Reunited
  54. Book 24: Odysseus Visits His Father; The Civil War on Ithaca Is Ended by the Gods
  55. Hesiod
  56. Life and Background
  57. Works and Days
  58. Lines 1–275
  59. Lines 276–828
  60. Theogony
  61. Lines 1–452
  62. Lines 453–1022
  63. Minor Works
  64. Greek Drama
  65. Origins
  66. The Theater
  67. Costumes
  68. Acting
  69. The Chorus
  70. Plot
  71. Structure
  72. Greek Tragedy
  73. Aeschylus
  74. Life and Background
  75. Agamemnon
  76. The Choephore
  77. The Eumenides
  78. Prometheus Bound
  79. The Persians
  80. The Seven Against Thebes
  81. The Suppliants
  82. Sophocles
  83. Life and Background
  84. Oedipus Rex
  85. Oedipus at Colonus
  86. Antigone
  87. Ajax
  88. Electra
  89. The Trachiniae
  90. Philoctetes
  91. Euripides
  92. Life and Background
  93. Electra
  94. Medea
  95. Hippolytus
  96. Andromache
  97. The Trojan Women
  98. Alcestis
  99. The Heracleidae
  100. Hecuba
  101. The Suppliants
  102. Heracles
  103. Ion
  104. Iphigenia in Tauris
  105. Helena
  106. The Phoenician Women
  107. Orestes
  108. The Bacchae
  109. Iphigenia in Aulis
  110. The Cyclops
  111. Greek Comedy
  112. Aristophanes
  113. Life and Background
  114. Lysistrata
  115. The Birds
  116. The Clouds
  117. The Frogs
  118. The Wasps
  119. Peace
  120. Menander
  121. Life and Background
  122. The Shearing of Glycera
  123. The Girl from Samos
  124. The Arbitration
  125. Dyskolos (The Grouch)
  126. Greek Prose Writers
  127. Lysias
  128. Demosthenes
  129. Aesop
  130. Greek Lyric Poets
  131. Sappho
  132. Pindar
  133. Alcaeus
  134. Lesser Lyric Poets
  135. Greek Historians
  136. An Introduction to the Classical Historians
  137. Herodotus
  138. Life and Background
  139. Histories of the Persian Wars
  140. Thucydides
  141. Life and Background
  142. The History of the Peloponnesian War
  143. Xenophon
  144. Life and Background
  145. Anabasis
  146. Hellenica
  147. Cyropaedia
  148. Memorabilia
  149. Greek Philosophers
  150. Plato
  151. Life and Background
  152. Euthyphro
  153. Apology
  154. Crito
  155. Phaedo
  156. Meno
  157. Ion
  158. Symposium
  159. The Republic
  160. Book I
  161. Book II
  162. Book III
  163. Book IV
  164. Book V
  165. Book VI
  166. Book VII
  167. Book VIII
  168. Book IX
  169. Book X
  170. Aristotle
  171. Life and Background
  172. Nicomachean Ethics
  173. Book I
  174. Book II
  175. Book III
  176. Book IV
  177. Book V
  178. Book VI
  179. Book VII
  180. Book VIII
  181. Book IX
  182. Book X
  183. Poetics
  184. Glossary
  185. Timeline
  186. Selected Bibliography
  187. About the Author