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- Classics in Translation Classics in Translation (1959, Paperback) read online ebook EPUB, DOC

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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: 路 Complete translations of Aeschylus' Agamemnon , Sophocles' Antigone , Euripides' Medea , Aristophanes' Frogs , and The Constitution of Athens by the "Old Oligarch." 路 Abridged translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey , The Homeric Hymn to Hermes , and Plutarch's Life of Tiberius Gracchus . 路 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. 路 Selections from the scientific writings of Hippocrates, Archimedes, and Galen. 路 Selections from the pre-Socratic philosophers and from Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, and Epictetus., Here, translated into modern idiom, are many works of the authors whose ideas have constituted the mainstream of classical thought. This volume of new translations was born of necessity, to answer the needs of a course in Greek and Roman culture offered by the Department of Integrated Liberal Studies at the University of Wisconsin. Since its original publication in 1952, Classics in Translation has been adopted by many different academic institutions to fill similar needs of their undergraduate students. This new printing is further evidence of this collection鈥檚 general acceptance by teachers, students, and the reviewing critics.

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