Classics in Translation: Greek Literature - Softcover

Mackendrick, Paul L.

 
9780299808952: Classics in Translation: Greek Literature
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0299808955 ISBN 13: 9780299808952
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press, 1959

Inhaltsangabe

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.


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Verlag
University of Wisconsin Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1959
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0299808955
ISBN 13 
9780299808952
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
446
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