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
From the Lateran Museum, Rome
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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