PREFACE TO THE SEVENTH EDITION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PHONETIC EQUIVALENTS
Masterpieces of the Ancient World
MAP: GREECE AND WESTERN ASIA MINOR, CA. FIFTH CENTURY B.C
INTRODUCTION
MAP: TltE ROMAN EMPIRE, CA. 117
TIMELINE
GILGAMESH (Akkadian, ca. 2500-1500 B.C.) (Translated by N. K. Sandars)
THE BIBLE: THE OLD TESTAMENT (Hebrew, ca. 1000-300 B.C.)
　Genesis 1-3 [The Creation---The Fall]
　 Genesis 4 [The First Murder]
　 Genesis 6-9 [The Flood]
　 Genesis 11 [The Origin of Languages]
　Genesis 22 [Abraham and Isaac]
　 Genesis 25, 27 [Jacob and Esau]
　Genesis 37, 39-46 [The Story of Joseph]
　 From Job
　Psalm 8
　 Psalm 19
　 Psalm 23
　Psalm 104
Psalm 137
The Song of Songs
Jonah(The King James Version)
HOMER (eighth century B.C.)
The Iliad (Greek)
Book I [The Rage of Achilles]
From Book VI [Hector Returns to Troy]
From Book VIII [The Tide of Battle Turns]
Book IX [The Embassy to Achilles]
From Book XVI [Patroclus Fights and Dies]
Book XVIII [The Shield of Achilles]
Book XXII [The Death of Hector]
Book XXIV [Achilles and Priam](Translated by Robert Fagles)
The Odyssey (Greek)
Book I [A Goddess Intervenes]
Book II [A Hero''s Son Awakens]
Book III [The Lord of the Western Approaches]
Book IV [The Red-Haired King and His Lady]
Book V [Sweet Nymph and Open Sea]
Book VI [The Princess at the River]
Book VII [Gardens and Firelight]
Book VIII [The Songs of the Harper]
Book IX [New Coasts and Poseidon''s Son]
Book X [The Grace of the Witch]
Book XI [A Gathering of Shades]
Book XII [Sea Perils and Defeat]
Book XIII [One More Strange Island]
Book XIV [Hospitality in the Forest]
Book XV [How They Came to Ithaka]
Book XVI [Father and Son]
Book XVII [The Beggar at the Manor]
Book XVIII [Blows and a Queen''s Beauty]
Book XIX [Recognitions and a Dream]
Book XX [Signs and a Vision]
Book XXI [The Test of the Bow]
Book XXII [Death in the Great Hall]
Book XXIII [The Trunk of the Olive Tree]
Book XXIV [Warriors, Farewell](Translated by Robert Fitzgerald)
SAPPHO OF LESBOS (born ca. 630 B.C.)
Lyrics (Greek)
[Throned in Splendor, Deathless, O Aphrodite]
[Like the Very Gods in My Sight Is He]
[Some There Are Who Say That the Fairest Thing Seen](Translated by Richard Lattimore)
AESCHYLUS (524?-456 B.C.)
The Oresteia (Greek)
Agamemnon
The Libation Bearers (summary)
The Eumenides(Translated by Robert Fagles )
SOPHOCLES (ca. 496-406 B.C.)
Oedipus the King (Greek)(Translated by Robert Fagles)
EURIPIDES (480-406 B.C.)
Medea (Greek)(Translated by Rex Warner)
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Masterpieces of the Middle Ages
Masterpieces of the Renaissance
A NOTE ON TEANSLATION
PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX