Classics in Translation, Volume I

Greek Literature

Paul L. MacKendrick, Herbert M. Howe, Paul L. MacKendrick, Herbert M. Howe

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9780299808938
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

Here, translated into modern English, are the works of literature, history, science, oratory, and philosophy that constitute the mainstream of classical Greek thought and continue to influence world civilizations. This volume includes:
· Complete translations of Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Medea, Aristophanes' Frogs, and The Constitution of Athens by the "Old Oligarch."
· Abridged translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, The Homeric Hymn to Hermes, and Plutarch's Life of Tiberius Gracchus.
· Selections from Hesiod and Lucian; from twenty-eight lyric poets including Sappho, Pindar, and Meleagar; from the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides; and from eight Attic orators, including Isocrates and Demosthenes.
· Selections from the scientific writings of Hippocrates, Archimedes, and Galen.
· Selections from the pre-Socratic philosophers and from Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, and Epictetus.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Greek Culture: An Essay - Walter R. Agard
• The Iliad of Homer - Translated by Alston H. Chase and William G. Perry, Jr.
• The Odyssey of Homer - Translated by Reuben A. Brower
• The Homeric Hymn to Hermes - Translated by Norman O. Brown
• Selections from Hesiod's Works and Days - Translated by Violet Zielke
• Lyric Poetry - Translated by Warren R. Castle and L. R. Lind
• The Pre-Socratic Philosophers - Translated by Herbert M. Howe
• Selections from Herodotus' The Histories - Translated by Paul MacKendrick
• The Agamemnon of Aeschylus - Translated by Louis MacNeice
• The Antigone of Sophocles - Translated by Maurice F. Neufeld
• The Medea of Euripides -Translated by Walter R. Agard
• The Frogs of Aristophanes - Translated by John G. Hawthorne
• The Constitution of Athens by the "Old Oligarch" - Translated by Paul MacKendrick
• Selections from Thucydides' History - Translated by Gerald F. Else
• The Attic Orators - Translated by H. Lamar Crosby
• The Greek Scientists - Translated by Herbert M. Howe
• Selections from Plato - Translated by William C. Greene
• Selections from Aristotle - Translated by Edwin L. Minar, Jr.
• Selections from Epicurus - Translated by Herbert M. Howe
• Plutarch's Life of Tiberius Gracchus - Translated by Herbert M. Howe
• Selections from Epictetus - Translated by Walter R. Agard
• Selections from Lucian - Translated by Frank W. Jones
• Maps