The Best Of The World's Classics (Restricted To Prose) Volume I - Greece: 484 b.c.-200 a.d.

Title	:	The Best Of The World's Classics (Restricted To Prose) Volume I - Greece: 484 b.c.-200 a.d.
Author	:	Henry Cabot Lodge
Release	:	2010-01-01
Kind	:	ebook
Genre	:	Fiction & Literature, Books
Size	:	271397

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Table of Contents Introduction. By Henry Cabot Lodge. Herodotus-(Born probably in 484 b.c., died probably in 424.) I: Solon's Words of Wisdom to Crœsus. (From Book I of the "History." Translated by Rawlinson) II: Babylon and Its Capture by Cyrus. (From Book I of the "History." Translated by Taylor) III: The Pyramid of Cheops. (From Book II of the "History." Translated by Rawlinson) IV: The Story of Periander's Son. (From Book III of the "History." Translated by Rawlinson) Thucydides—(Born about 471 b.c., died about 401.) I: The Athenians and Spartans Contrasted. (From Book I of the "Peloponnesian War." Translated by Benjamin Jowett) II: The Plague at Athens. (From Book II of the "Peloponnesian War." Translated by Benjamin Jowett) III: The Sailing of the Athenian Fleet for Sicily. (From Book VI of the "Peloponnesian War." Translated by Benjamin Jowett) IV: Completion of the Athenian Defeat at Syracuse. (From Book VII of the "Peloponnesian War." Translated by Benjamin Jowett) Xenophon I: The Character of Cyrus the Younger. (From the "Anabasis." Translated by J. S. Watson) II: The Greek Army in the Snows of Armenia. (From the "Anabasis." Translated by Watson) III: The Battle of Leuctra. (From Book VI of the "Hellenica." Translated by Watson) IV: Of the Army of the Spartans. (From the treatise on "The Government of Lacedæmon." Translated by: Watson) V: How to Choose and Manage Saddle Horses. (From the treatise on "Horsemanship." Translated by Watson) Plato I: The Image of the Cave. (From the "Republic." Translated by Benjamin Jowett) II: Good and Evil. (From the "Protagoras." Translated by Benjamin Jowett) III: Socrates in Praise of Love. (From the "Symposium." Translated by Benjamin Jowett) IV: The Praise of Socrates by Alcibiades. (From the "Symposium." Translated by Benjamin Jowett) V: The Refusal of Socrates to Escape from Prison. (From the "Crito." Translated by Benjamin Jowett) VI: The Death of Socrates. (From the "Phædo." Translated by Benjamin Jowett) Aristotle I: What Things are Pleasant. (From Book I of the "Rhetoric." Translated by Buckley) II: The Life Most Desirable. (From Book VII of the "Politics." Translated by Walford) III: Ideal Husbands and Wives. (From Book I of the "Economics." Translated by Walford) IV: Happiness as an End of Human Action. (From Book X of the "Nicomachean Ethics." Translated by Browne) Polybius I: The Battle of Cannæ. (From Book IV of the "Histories." Translated by Shuckburgh) II: Hannibal's Advance on Rome. (From Book IX of the "Histories." Translated by Shuckburgh) III: The Defense of Syracuse by Archimedes. (From Book VIII of the "Histories." Translated by Shuckburgh) Plutarch I: Demosthenes and Cicero Compared. (From the "Lives." Translated by Sir Thomas North) II: The Assassination of Cæsar. (From the "Lives." Translated by North) III: Cleopatra's Barge. (From the "Life of Mark Antony." Translated by North) IV: The Death of Antony and Cleopatra. (From the "Life of Mark Antony." Translated by North) Epictetus I: Of Freedom. (From the "Discourses." Translated by Thomas Wentworth Higginson) II: Of Friendship. (From the "Discourses." Translated by Higginson) III: The Philosopher and the Crowd. (From the "Discourses." Translated by Higginson) LucianI: A Descent to the Unknown. (From "Menippus." Translated by H. W. and F. G. Fowler) II: Among the Philosophers. (From the "Fisher: A Resurrection Piece." Translated by H. W. and F. G. Fowler) III: Of Liars and Lying. (From the "Liar." Translated by H. W. and F. G. Fowler)