Heinemann): Aristotle, Rhetoric, Dr. Welldon (Macmillan) : Theophrastus, Sir A. Hort (Loeb Series, Heinemann). I have also to thank the following for leave to quote versions from the Greek Anthology: Sir Rennell Rodd, Love, Worship, and Death, 2nd ed. (E. Arnold), Dr. J. A. Pott, Greek Love Songs and Epigrams (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner), Dr. R. Garnett, A Chaplet from the Greek Anthology (Fisher Unwin), Dr. G. B. Grundy, Ancient Gems in Modern Setting (Blackwell), H. Macnaghten, Verses Ancient and Modern (Allen & Unwin). One or two other debts. are acknowledged in the notes. I am much indebted to Mr. J. D. Beazley for kindly selecting the portraits here reproduced. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS THEATRE AT EPIDAURUS, built by the architect THEATRE AT ATHENS, from the East GREECE AND THE ADJOININg Lands. SOPHOCLES (Mansell) EURIPIDES (Mansell). PLAN OF A GREEK THEATRE MENANDER (Boston Museum) Frontispiece xii facing 113 120 128 THUCYDIDES (Mansell) SOCRATES 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 2. Homer (Historical sketch, p. 15: Iliad, p. 18 f.: 3. Lyric Poetry: Pindar (Historical sketch, p. 79: Alc- 79 4. Tragedy (Historical sketch, p. 96: Aeschylus, p. 108 f. : 96 9. Philosophy: The Sophists and Socrates (Hippias, 12. Oratory: Demosthenes (Demosthenes, p. 359 f.: 13. Theocritus and the Epigrammatists (Historical sketch, 15. Science (Anaxagoras and others, p. 414 f.: Hippocrates, 251 358 367 407 15 SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY THE books here mentioned can all be recommended. The accuracy of the prices given is not guaranteed. Students are strongly advised to purchase The Claim of Antiquity (Oxford Univ. Press, Is.), a list of the best translations and books on the classics for the general reader, with their publishers and prices, and with comments. My own list is largely taken from it. In making it I have preferred to recommend inexpensive translations where they are also good. The chief series of classical translations are : Loeb Classical Library (Heinemann, ios. a vol.). Prints the original and the translation opposite. Oxford Library of Translations (Oxford Univ. Press, 6s. a vol.). Bohn Library (Bell & Sons). World's Classics (Oxford Univ. Press, 2s. a vol.). HOMER. Iliad (prose) by Lang, Leaf, and Myers (Macmillan, 6s.). W. Leaf, A Companion to the Iliad for English Readers (Macmillan, 8s. 6d.) is useful. Odyssey (prose) by Butcher and Lang (Macmillan, 4s.). Odyssey (verse) by J. W. Mackail (Murray, 3 vols., 6s. each), and by Caulfeild (Bell & Sons, 25.). AESCHYLUS, by E. D. A. Morshead (Macmillan, 2 vols., 3s. 6d. each). The Agamemnon and Choephoroi, by Gilbert Murray (Allen & Unwin, Is. 6d. each). Four Plays of Aeschylus, by G. M. Cookson (Blackwell, 6s.)., excellent. SOPHOCLES, by L. Campbell (World's Classics), fair. Oedipus, King of Thebes, by Gilbert Murray (Allen & Unwin, 1s. 6d.), and by J. T. Sheppard (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2s.), excellent. EURIPIDES, Alcestis, Bacchae, Electra, Hippolytus, Iphigeneia in Tauris, Medea, Rhesus, Trojan Women, by Gilbert Murray (Allen & Unwin, Is. 6d. each). Complete translation (Everyman, 2 vols.). ARISTOPHANES, by B. B. Rogers (Bell, 2s. each play). The Frogs, by Gilbert Murray (Allen & Unwin, 1s. 6d.). HERODOTUS, by A. D. Godley (Loeb, 4 vols.). by G. Rawlinson (Everyman, 2 vols.). THUCYDIDES, by R. Crawley (Everyman). by B. Jowett (Oxford Univ. Press, 2 vols., 15s.). XENOPHON, various works, by H. G. Dakyns (Macmillan). PLATO. Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo, published as The Four Socratic Dialogues of Plato (Oxford Univ. Press, 4s. 6d.), and as The Trial and Death of Socrates (Macmillan, 3s. 6d.). Phaedrus, Lysis, and Protagoras (id.). The Republic (id.). Best read with Lectures on the Republic of Plato, by R. L. Nettleship (Macmillan, 10s. 6d.). The complete translation of Plato, by Jowett (Oxford Univ. Press), is out of print. A. E. Taylor, Plato (Constable, is. 6d.), a good short introduction. ARISTOTLE Nicomachean Ethics, by J. E. C. Welldon (Macmillan, 8s. 6ď.) and F. H. Peters (Kegan Paul, 6s. 6d.). Chapters from Aristotle's Ethics, by J. H. Muirhead (Murray, 9s.), selections and good discussions. Politics, by B. Jowett (Oxford Univ. Press, 4s. 6d.). Poetics, by I. Bywater (Oxford Univ. Press, 2s. 6d.). Other works (Oxford Univ. Press). A. E. Taylor, Aristotle (People's Books, T. C. Jack, 1s. 3d.), a good short introduction. The Aristotle translations in Everyman are not recommended. Theophrastus, by Sir A. Hort (Loeb). DEMOSTHENES. Public Orations, by A. W. Pickard-Cambridge (Oxford Univ. Press, 2 vols., 10s.). A good selection in Everyman. THEOCRITUS, by C. S. Calverley (Bell & Sons, 2s. 6d.) GREEK ANTHOLOGY. For translations see acknowledgement in preface. There are good selections by G. R. Tomson (Walter Scott, 2s.), G. B. Grundy (Blackwell, 6s.), and (prose) J. W. Mackail (Longman, 3s. 6d.). PLUTARCH (Everyman, 3 vols.). For those who enjoy Elizabethan English and are not particular about accuracy North's translation (Temple Classics, 9 vols.) is recommended. LITERATURE. Ancient Greek Literature, by Gilbert Murray (Heinemann, 6s.), highly recommended. Histoire de la littérature grecque, by A. and M. Croiset (Fontemoing, 5 vols.). The standard history, and itself a work of literature. HISTORY. J. H. Breasted, Ancient Times (Ginn & Co., 8s. 6d.). Excellent sketch of the history of the ancient world. C. A. Fyffe, Greece (Macmillan, Is. 9d.). Useful primer, out of date for prehistoric Greece. Bury, History of Greece (Macmillan, 8s. 6d.). The standard history. SCIENCE. Essays in Legacy of Greece (Oxford Univ. Press, 7s. 6d.). Greek Biology and Greek Medicine, by C. Singer (Oxford Univ. Press, 2s. 6d.), reprinted from above. Science and Mathematics in Classical Antiquity, by J. L. Heiberg (id. 2s. 6d.). |