Masterpieces of Greek Literature (1902)

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MASTERPIECES OF

GREEK LITERATURE

HOMER: TYRTAEUS : ARCHILOCHUS : CALLISTRA-
TUS: ALCAEUS: SAPPHO: ANACREON: PINDAR:
AESCHYLUS: SOPHOCLES: EURIPIDES:
ARISTOPHANES: HERODOTUS: THU-
CYDIDES: XEXOPHON: PLATO:
THEOCRITUS: LUCIAN

WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND NOTES

SUPERVISING EDITOR

JOHN HENRY WRIGHT, LL.D.

PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY

 

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SOPHOCLES
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CONTENTS

[The names of translators are given in italics.]

	PAGE
INTRODUCTION	vii
HOMER.
Introductory Note	1
Iliad. Bryant.
Meeting of Hector and Andromachè	2
The Death of Hector	6
The Mourning for Hector	19
Odyssey. Worsley.
Odysseus in the Cave of Polyphemus	22
TYRTAEUS.
Introductory Note	46
Martial Elegy. Campbell	46
ARCHILOCHUS.
Introductory Note	48
To His Soul. Hay	48
SCOLIA.
Introductory Note	50
A Scolion of Callistratus. Conington	50
A Scolion of Hybrias the Cretan. Campbell	51
The Swallow Song. Symonds	51
ALCAEUS.
Introductory Note	53
Winter. Symonds	53
SAPPHO.
Introductory Note	55
Hymn to Venus. Merivale	55
To A Loved One. Phillips	56
"Inter Ignes Luna Minores." Arnold	57
To an Uncultured Lesbian Woman. Symonds	57
A Girl in Love. Moore	58
One Girl. Rossetti	58
To Evening. Appleton	59
ANACREON.
Introductory Note	60
Anacreontics. Moore	60
Old Age	60
The Wiser Part	61
To a Swallow	62
Love's Assault	62
The Pet Dove	63
The Portrait	65
Drinking Song	66
Music and Love	67
Nature's Gifts	68
SIMONIDES OF CEOS.
Introductory Note	69
Danaë and her Babe adrift. Symonds	70
On those who died at Thermopylae. Sterling	71
PINDAR.
Introductory Note	72
First Pythian Ode. West	74
From Pindar's Fourth Pythian Ode. Myers	82
AESCHYLUS.
Introductory Note	85
Prometheus Bound. Mrs. Browning	88
SOPHOCLES.
Introductory Note	136
Antigone. Plumptre	138
EURIPIDES.
Introductory Note	191
Heracles. Browning.
The Fate of Heracles	193
The Madness of Heracles	197
Alcestis. Browning	201
ARISTOPHANES.
Introductory Note	249
The Birds. Frere	251
The Frogs. Frere	286
HERODOTUS.
Introductory Note	292
Extracts from the History. Rawlinson.
The Taking of Babylon	293
Persian Customs	295
The Nile	297
Egyptian Customs	304
Crocodiles and the Hippopotamus	306
Sesostris	308
The Pyramid of Cheops	312
The Battle of Marathon	314
THUCYDIDES.
Introductory Note	319
Extracts from the History of the Peloponnesian War. Jowett	320
The Plague at Athens	320
Public Funeral at Athens	327
The Siege of Plataea	332
The Retreat from Syracuse	337
XENOPHON.
Introductory Note	350
Memorabilia. Dakyns.
Socrates and Aristodemus	351
The Choice of Heracles	355
Socrates and Chaerecrates	360
Anabasis. Dakyns.
The Battle of Cunaxa	365
The First Glimpse of the Sea	368
PLATO.
Introductory Note	371
Note on Socrates	373
Gorgias. Jowett.
The True Politician	374
Crito. Jowett	377
Phaedo. Jowett.
The Death of Socrates	395
The Republic. Jowett.
The Ship of State	401
The Allegory of the Cave	408
DEMOSTHENES.
Introductory Note	417
Oration on the Crown. Lord Brougham	418
THEOCRITUS.
Introductory Note	429
Idyl I. The Death of Daphnis. Calverley	430
Idyl VII. Harvest Home. Calverley	435
Idyl XV. The Festival of Adonis. Arnold	438
LUCIAN.
Introductory Note	444
Timon of Athens. Act. III.. Sheldon	445
A Dialogue of the Dead. Sheldon	453
Peregrinus. Sheldon	454

 

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