Introduction p. 9
Greek Epic Poetry
Homer p. 13
Homer and the Epic p. 17
The Iliad p. 19
The Odyssey p. 47
Hesiod p. 71
Works and Days p. 75
Theogony p. 77
Minor Works p. 78
Greek Drama
Origins p. 81
The Theater p. 85
Costumes p. 87
Acting p. 88
The Chorus p. 89
Plot p. 90
Structure p. 91
Greek Tragedy
Aeschylus p. 95
Agamemnon p. 99
The Choephore p. 102
The Eumenides p. 105
Prometheus Bound p. 108
The Persians p. 112
The Seven Against Thebes p. 114
The Suppliants p. 116
Sophocles p. 121
Oedipus Rex p. 126
Oedipus at Colonus p. 128
Antigone p. 131
Ajax p. 134
Electra p. 136
The Trachiniae p. 138
Philoctetes p. 141
Euripides p. 145
Electra p. 149
Medea p. 153
Hippolytus p. 156
Andromache p. 159
The Trojan Women p. 163
Alcestis p. 167
The Heracleidae p. 171
Hecuba p. 173
The Suppliants p. 177
Heracles p. 180
Ion p. 184
Iphigenia in Tauris p. 189
Helena p. 193
The Phoenician Women p. 198
Orestes p. 202
The Bacchae p. 207
Iphigenia in Aulis p. 212
The Cyclops p. 217
Greek Comedy
Aristophanes p. 223
Lysistrata p. 227
The Birds p. 230
The Clouds p. 233
The Frogs p. 235
The Wasps p. 237
Peace p. 240
Menander p. 243
The Shearing of Glycera p. 247
The Girl from Samos p. 250
The Arbitration p. 253
Dyskolos (The Grouch) p. 256
Greek Prose Writers
Lysias p. 265
Demosthenes p. 267
Aesop p. 269
Greek Lyric Poets
Sappho p. 273
Pindar p. 276
Alcaeus p. 281
Lesser Lyric Poets p. 283
Greek Historians
An Introduction to the Classical Historians p. 291
Herodotus p. 295
Thucydides p. 303
Xenophon p. 311
Greek Philosophers
Plato p. 319
Euthyphro p. 324
Apology p. 325
Crito p. 329
Phaedo p. 331
Meno p. 334
Ion p. 336
Symposium p. 338
The Republic p. 341
Aristotle p. 363
Nichomachaen Ethics p. 368
Poetics p. 387
Glossary p. 393
Timeline p. 395
Selected Bibliography p. 397
Index p. 415