Table Of Contents:
Introuduction
John Lewin vii
Classical Literature and the World of Today vii
Reading Translations x
Homer
from Book 22 of The Odyssey (Greek Text) xi
from Book 22 of The Odyssey (Pope translation) xi
from Book 22 of The Odyssey (Fitzgerald translation) xii
from Book 22 of The Odyssey (Fagles translation) xii
The Delphic Oracle xiii
LITERATURE OF GREECE

Aeschylus 3(71)

The House of Atreus (drama) 4(70)

Act One. Agamemnon 4(26)

Act Two. The Bringers of Offerings 30(21)

Act Three. The Furies 51(23)

Aesop 74(5)

The Cranes and the Farmer (fable) 74(1)

The Field Mouse and the House Mouse (fable) 74(2)

The North Wind and the Sun (fable) 76(1)

The Old Man and His Children (fable) 76(1)

The Two Packs (fable) 77(2)

Aristotle 79(9)

from The Poetics (criticism) 79(9)

Euripides 88(39)

Iphigenia in Aulis (drama) 89(38)

The Greek Anthology 127(5)

A Gravestone at Corinth (poem) 127(1)

Never Again, Orpheus (poem) 127(1)

Where Is Your Famous Beauty? (poem) 128(1)

A Physician's Touch (poem) 128(1)

Of the Sensual World (poem) 129(1)

Ten Ages in the Life of Man (poem) 129(1)

The Darkness of Human Life (poem) 129(1)

The Last Utterance of the Delphic Oracle (poem) 130(2)

Herodotus 132(18)

from The History (history) 132(18)

Plato 150(4)

from the Republic (philosophy) The Parable of the Cave 150(4)

Plutarch 154(21)

Lycurgus (biography) 154(21)

Sappho 175(6)

Ceremony (poem) 175(1)

Full Moon (poem) 175(1)

World (poem) 175(1)

To Aphrodite and the Nereids (poem) 176(1)

Kleis (poem) 176(1)

Andromeda, What Now? (poem) 176(1)

A Lanky Groom (poem) 176(1)

Wedding Song (poem) 177(1)

Wedding of Andromache (poem) 177(1)

To Dika, Not to Go Bareheaded (poem) 178(1)

To An Uneducated Woman (poem) 178(1)

Her Wealth (poem) 178(1)

Money and Virtue (poem) 179(1)

Someone, I Tell You (poem) 179(1)

Then (poem) 179(2)

Sophocles 181(44)

Oedipus the King (drama) 181(44)
LITERATURE OF ROME

Catullus 225(3)

Happiness (poem) 225(1)

Kisses (poem) 225(1)

On Lesbia's Inconstancy (poem) 226(1)

Inference (poem) 226(1)

Love's Unreason (poem) 227(1)

Horace 228(13)

from The Odes

Book 1, Ode 15 (poem) 228(1)

Book 1, Ode 37 (poem) 229(1)

Book 2, Ode 15 (poem) 230(1)

Book 3, Ode 30 (poem) 231(1)

True Greatness (poem) 232(1)

The Origin of Satire (poem) 232(1)

The Art of Poetry Again (poem) 233(3)

The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse (poem) 236(5)

Juvenal 241(15)

from The Satires

The Fifth Satire: Against Mean Patrons and Despicable Clients (poem) 241(6)

The Thirteenth Satire: for a Defrauded Friend (poem) 247(9)

Martial 256(5)

from The Epigrams

The Cook (poem) 256(1)

A Total Abstainer (poem) 256(1)

To Lupus (poem) 256(1)

A Promising Youth (poem) 257(1)

To Ligurinus (poem) 258(1)

To Polla (poem) 258(1)

A Hinted Wish (poem) 258(1)

Old Age (poem) 258(1)

The Poet (poem) 259(1)

Procrastination (poem) 259(2)

Ovid 261(9)

from The Metamorphoses

The Creation (poem) 261(2)

The Story of Baucis and Philemon (poem) 263(3)

The Story of Daedalus and Icarus (poem) 266(4)

Pliny the Younger 270(9)

from The Letters

Book 6, Letter 16: To Tacitus (letter) 270(3)

Book 6, Letter 20: To Cornelius Tacitus (letter) 273(2)

Book 7, Letter 27: To Sura (letter) 275(2)

Book 9, Letter 3: To Paulinus (letter) 277(2)

Suetonius 279(6)

from The Twelve Caesars (biography) Nero the Imperial Artist 279(6)

Tacitus 285(14)

from The Annals (history) 285(14)
Acknowledgments 299(2)
Pronunciation Key 301(1)
Index Of Authors, Titles, And Translators 302