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Tables of Contents for The Portable Greek Reader
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Editor's Introduction
1
38
Chronological Outline of Classical Greek Civilization
39
13
PART ONE. COSMOGONIES AND COSMOLOGIES
The Creation [From Theogony]
52
3
Hesiod
H. G. Evelyn-White
The Five Ages [From Works and Days]
55
3
Hesiod
H. G. Evelyn-White
Prometheus [From Theogony]
58
4
Hesiod
H. G. Evelyn-White
Zeus [From Oedipus Tyrannus]
62
2
Sophocles
Robert M. Whitelaw
Dionysus [From The Bacchae]
64
2
Euripides
Gilbert Murray
The Earth Mother
66
1
Homeric Hymn
P. B. Shelley
Minor Deities
67
1
Archias
Anyte
J. W. Mackail
The True God [Fragments]
68
1
Xenophanes
John Burnet
The Word [Fragments]
69
8
Heraclitus
John Burnet
The Real [Fragments]
77
3
Parmenides
John Burnet
Love and Strife [Fragments]
80
3
Empedocles
John Burnet
God and the World Timaeus
83
95
Plato
Benjamin Jowett
The First Cause [From Metaphysics]
178
24
Aristotle
W. D. Ross
PART TWO. THE HERO
The Epic Hero The Death of Hector [From The Iliad]
202
40
Homer
Alexander Pope
The Book of the Dead [From The Odyssey]
221
21
Homer
E.V. Rieu
The Patriot Two Epitaphs
242
1
Simonides
J. W. Mackail
The Athlete Two Odes Pythia 10
243
131
Pindar
Richmond Lattimore
Nemea 6
246
3
The Tragic Hero A Trilogy: The Oresteia
Aeschylus
George Thomson
Agamemnon
249
53
Choephoroe
302
37
Eumenides
339
35
The Great Man [From Nicomachean Ethics]
374
6
Aristotle
W. D. Ross
The Happy Man [From Nicomachean Ethics]
380
8
Aristotle
W. D. Ross
The Philosophic Hero [From Phaedo]
388
5
Plato
Benjamin Jowett
The Engineer Archimedes [From Book of Histories]
393
3
Tzetzes
Ivor Thomas
PART THREE. NATURE
Physics
The First Science [From Metaphysics]
396
10
Aristotle
W. D. Ross
Nature [From Physics]
406
25
Aristotle
R. P. Hardie
R. K. Gaye
Mathematics Number and Proportion [From Elements]
431
4
Euclid
Ivor Thomas
Measurement of the Earth [From On the Circular Motion of the Heavenly Bodies]
435
3
Cleomedes
Ivor Thomas
Medicine on Airs, Waters, and Places
438
27
Hippocrates
Francis Adams
Growth [From On the Natural Faculties]
465
5
Galen
Arthur John Brock
PART FOUR. MAN
Ethics
Man [From Antigone]
470
1
Sophocles
D. Fitts
R. Fitzgerald
Human Imperfection
471
1
Simonides
Gilbert Highet
Self-Love [From Nicomachean Ethics]
472
4
Aristotle
W. D. Ross
Nature and Culture
476
1
Antiphon
R. Webster
Self-Control [From The Manual]
477
9
Epictetus
P. E. Matheson
Love [From Antigone]
486
1
Sophocles
D. Fitts, R. Fitzgerald
Eros [From Symposium]
487
12
Plato
Benjamin Jowett
Literary Forms
Lyric
499
1
Alcaeus
C. M. Bowra
Lyric
500
1
Anacreon
T. F. Higham
Lyric
501
1
Meleager
J. W. Mackail
Lyric
501
2
Sappho
Walter Headlam
E. M. Cox
Epitaph
503
1
Simonides
Callimachus
Palladas
J. W. Mackail
Pastoral Idyll II: The Sorceress
504
9
Theocritus
R. C. Trevelyan
Fable The Owl and the Birds
513
2
Aesop
The Man and the Satyr
514
1
The Goods and the Ills
514
1
Character Studies Tactlessness
515
2
Theophrastus
J. M. Edmonds
Superstitiousness
516
1
Biography [From Lives of the Sophists] Polemo
517
17
Philostratus
Wilmer Cave Wright
Hermogenes
530
4
PART FIVE. SOCIETY
Types of States [From Politics]
534
11
Aristotle
W. D. Ross
The Just Society [From Laws]
545
14
Plato
Benjamin Jowett
Public Education [From Laws]
559
19
Plato
Benjamin Jowett
Utopia The Birds
578
61
Aristophanes
Plato in Sicily [From Epistle VII]
639
17
Plato
The Sicilian Expedition [From Peloponnesian War]
656
Thucydides
Benjamin Jowett