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The Portable Greek Reader Paperback W. H. Auden
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- Publication Name
- Penguin Publishing Group
- ISBN
- 9780140150391
- Book Title
- Portable Greek Reader
- Book Series
- Portable Library
- Item Length
- 7.7 in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 1977
- Format
- Uk-B Format Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.6 in
- Genre
- History, Literary Collections, Fiction
- Topic
- Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Ancient / Greece, Literary, Ancient & Classical
- Item Width
- 5.1 in
- Item Weight
- 20.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 736 Pages
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It is commonplace to say that our civilization is built on the ruins of Greece. W. H. Auden's splendid anthology locates the truth behind the truism, while filling in the gaps in our knowledge of a people who gave us so much of our cultural legacy. Every page in The Portable Greek Reader contains some fundamental precursor of the ways in which we think about heroism, destiny, love, politics, tragedy, science, virtue, and thought itself, Included are excerpts from the mythologies of Hesiod; the martial epics of Homer; the dramas of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides; the philosophy of Plato, Aristotle, and Heraclitus; Aesop's fables; poems by Pindar and Sappho; the scientific writings of Euclid, Galen, and Hippocrates; and the history of Thucydides. Presented in their most elegant and authoritative translations, and accompanied by Auden's brilliant introduction, these selections recreate the Greek world in all its splendor, strangeness, and sophistication. "Engaging and full and intelligent ... a command performance, brought off with considerable aplomb." -- The New York Times
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0140150390
ISBN-13
9780140150391
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59978
Product Key Features
Book Title
Portable Greek Reader
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Ancient / Greece, Literary, Ancient & Classical
Book Series
Portable Library
Publication Year
1977
Genre
History, Literary Collections, Fiction
Number of Pages
736 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Item Weight
20.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Series Volume Number
No. 39
Lc Classification Number
Pa3621
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Grade to
Up
Table of Content
(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 (From Peloponnesian 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 Notes
Copyright Date
1977
Lccn
77-008047
Dewey Decimal
880.8/001
Dewey Edition
19
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