{"product_id":"the-portable-greek-reader-isbn-9780140150391","title":"The Portable Greek Reader","description":"It is commonplace to say that our civilization is built on the ruins of Greece. W. H. Auden’s splendid anthology locates the truth behind the truism, while filling in the gaps in our knowledge of a people who gave us so much of our cultural legacy.\u003cp\u003eEvery page in \u003cb\u003eThe Portable Greek Reader\u003c\/b\u003e contains some fundamental precursor of the ways in which we think about heroism, destiny, love, politics, tragedy, science, virtue, and thought itself, Included are excerpts from the mythologies of Hesiod; the martial epics of Homer; the dramas of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides; the philosophy of Plato, Aristotle, and Heraclitus; Aesop’s fables; poems by Pindar and Sappho; the scientific writings of Euclid, Galen, and Hippocrates; and the history of Thucydides. Presented in their most elegant and authoritative translations, and accompanied by Auden’s brilliant introduction, these selections recreate the Greek world in all its splendor, strangeness, and sophistication.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Engaging and full and intelligent … a command performance, brought off with considerable aplomb.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e(Translators are listed in parentheses after the author of each work)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditor's Introduction\u003cbr\u003eChronological Outline of Classical Greek Civilization\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One. Cosmogonies and Cosmologies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE CREATION (From \u003ci\u003eTheogony\u003c\/i\u003e) - Hesiod (H. G. Evelyn-White)\u003cbr\u003eTHE FIVE AGES (From \u003ci\u003eWorks and Days\u003c\/i\u003e) - Hesiod (H. G. Evelyn-White)\u003cbr\u003ePROMETHEUS (From \u003ci\u003eTheogony\u003c\/i\u003e) - Hesiod (H. G. Evelyn-White)\u003cbr\u003eZEUS (From \u003ci\u003eOedipus Tyrannus\u003c\/i\u003e) - Sophocles (Robert M. Whitelaw)\u003cbr\u003eDIONYSUS (From \u003ci\u003eThe Bacchae\u003c\/i\u003e) - Euripides (Gilbert Murray)\u003cbr\u003eTHE EARTH MOTHER - Homeric Hymn (P. B. shelley)\u003cbr\u003eMINOR DEITIES - Archias, Anyte (J. W. Mackail)\u003cbr\u003eTHE TRUE GOD (Fragments) - Xenophanes (John Burnet)\u003cbr\u003eTHE WORD (Fragments) - Heraclitus (John Burnet)\u003cbr\u003eTHE REAL (Fragments) - Parmenides (John Burnet)\u003cbr\u003eLOVE AND STRIFE (Fragments) - Empedocles (John Burnet)\u003cbr\u003eGOD AND THE WORLD (\u003ci\u003eTimaeus\u003c\/i\u003e) - Plato (Benjamin Jowett)\u003cbr\u003eTHE FIRST CAUSE (From \u003ci\u003eMetaphysics\u003c\/i\u003e) - Aristotle (W. D. Ross)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two. The Hero\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE EPIC HERO:\u003cbr\u003eTHE DEATH OF HECTOR (From \u003ci\u003eThe Iliad\u003c\/i\u003e) - Homer (Alexander Pope)\u003cbr\u003eTHE BOOK OF THE DEAD (From \u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e) - Homer (E. V. Rieu)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE PATRIOT:\u003cbr\u003eTWO EPITAPHS - Simonides (J. W. Mackail)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE ATHLETE:\u003cbr\u003eTWO ODES: Pythia 10; Nemea 6 - Pindar (Richmond Lattimore)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE TRAGIC HERO:\u003cbr\u003eA TRILOGY: THE ORESTEIA: AGAMEMNON; CHOEPHOROE; EUMENIDES - Aeschylus (George Thomson)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE GREAT MAN (From \u003ci\u003eNicomachaen Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e) - Aristotle (W. D. Ross)\u003cbr\u003eTHE HAPPY MAN (From \u003ci\u003eNicomachaen Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e) - Aristotle (W. D. Ross)\u003cbr\u003eTHE PHILOSOPHIC HERO (From \u003ci\u003ePhaedo\u003c\/i\u003e) - Plato (Benjamin Jowett)\u003cbr\u003eTHE ENGINEER:\u003cbr\u003eARCHIMEDES (From \u003ci\u003eBook of Histories\u003c\/i\u003e) - Tzestzes (Ivor Thomas)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three. Nature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePHYSICS:\u003cbr\u003eTHE FIRST SCIENCE (From \u003ci\u003eMetaphysics\u003c\/i\u003e) - Aristotle (W. D. Ross)\u003cbr\u003eNATURE (From \u003ci\u003ePhysics\u003c\/i\u003e) - Aristotle (R. P. Hardie, R. K. Gaye)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMATHEMATICS:\u003cbr\u003eNUMBER AND PROPORTION (From \u003ci\u003eElements\u003c\/i\u003e) - Euclid (Ivor Thomas)\u003cbr\u003eMEASUREMENT OF THE EARTH (From \u003ci\u003eOn the Circular Motion of the Heavenly Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e) - Cleomedes (Ivor Thomas)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMEDICINE:\u003cbr\u003eON AIRS, WATERS AND PLACES - Hippocrates (Francis Adams)\u003cbr\u003eGROWTH (From \u003ci\u003eOn the Natural Faculties\u003c\/i\u003e) - Galen (Arthur John Brock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Four. Man\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eETHICS:\u003cbr\u003eMAN (From \u003ci\u003eAntigone\u003c\/i\u003e) - Sophocles (D. Fitts, R. Fitzgerald)\u003cbr\u003eHUMAN IMPERFECTION - Simonides (Gilbert Highet)\u003cbr\u003eSELF-LOVE (From \u003ci\u003eNichomachean Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e) - Aristotle (W. D. Ross)\u003cbr\u003eNATURE AND CULTURE - Antiphon (R. Webster)\u003cbr\u003eSELF-CONTROL (From \u003ci\u003eThe Manual\u003c\/i\u003e) - Epictetus (P.E. Matheson)\u003cbr\u003eLOVE (From \u003ci\u003eAntigone\u003c\/i\u003e) - Sophocles (D. Fitts, R. Fitzgerald)\u003cbr\u003eEROS (From \u003ci\u003eSymposium\u003c\/i\u003e) - Plato (Benjamin Jowett)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLITERARY FORMS:\u003cbr\u003eLYRIC:\u003cbr\u003eAlcaeus (C. M. Bowra)\u003cbr\u003eAnacreon (T. F. Higham)\u003cbr\u003eMeleager (J. w. Mackail)\u003cbr\u003eSappho (Walter Headlam, E. M. Cox)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEPITAPH:\u003cbr\u003eSimonides, Callimachus, Palladas, etc. (J. W. Mackail)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePASTORAL:\u003cbr\u003eIDYLL II: THE SORCERESS - Theocritus (R. C. Trevelyan)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFABLE:\u003cbr\u003eTHE OWL AND THE BIRDS; THE MAN AND THE SATYR; THE GOODS AND THE ILLS - Aesop\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHARACTER STUDIES:\u003cbr\u003eTactlessness; Superstitiousness - Theophrastus (J. M. Edmonds)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBIOGRAPHY:\u003cbr\u003e(From \u003ci\u003eLives of the Sophists\u003c\/i\u003e): Polemo; Hermogenes - Philostratus (Wilmer Cave Wright)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Five. Society\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTYPES OF STATES (From \u003ci\u003ePolitics\u003c\/i\u003e) - Aristotle (W. D. Ross)\u003cbr\u003eTHE JUST SOCIETY (From \u003ci\u003eLaws\u003c\/i\u003e) - Plato (Benjamin Jowett)\u003cbr\u003ePUBLIC EDUCATION (From \u003ci\u003eLaws\u003c\/i\u003e) - Plato (Benjamin Jowett)\u003cbr\u003eUTOPIA (\u003ci\u003eThe Birds\u003c\/i\u003e) - Aristophanes \u003cbr\u003ePLATO IN SICILY (From \u003ci\u003eEpistle VII) - Plato\u003cbr\u003eTHE SICILIAN EXPEDITION (From\u003ci\u003ePeloponnesian War\u003c\/i\u003e) - Thucydides - Benjamin Jowett\u003cbr\u003e1. \u003cb\u003eAn Account of the Loss of the Essex\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Excerpt from the Journal of the \u003cb\u003eSurry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExtracts: Memories and Apocrypha\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eW.H. Auden\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1907 and went to Oxford University, where he became Professor of Poetry from 1956 to 1960.  After the publication of his \u003cb\u003ePoems\u003c\/b\u003e in 1930, he became the acknowledged leader of the 'thirties poets'.  His poetic output was prolific, and he also wrote verse plays in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood, with whom he visited china.  In 1946 he became a U.S. citizen.  He died in 1973.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305186349285,"sku":"NP9780140150391","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140150391.jpg?v=1767741009","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-portable-greek-reader-isbn-9780140150391","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}