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The Norton book of classical literature

More than 300 pieces of classical literature, primarily Greek but also some Roman.

Other Authors: Knox, Bernard, 1914-2010.
Format: Book
Language: English
Latin
Ancient Greek
Published: New York : Norton, [1993]
Physical Description: 866 pages ; 24 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Roma -- colecciones literarias.
Classical literature -- Translations into English.
Classical literature.
Greece -- Literary collections.
Rome -- Literary collections.
Greece -- colecciones literarias.
Summary: More than 300 pieces of classical literature, primarily Greek but also some Roman.
Item Description: Includes index.
Contents (authors only): Preface (p.21) -- Introduction (p.23) -- Greece (p.61). Homer (p.63) -- Hesiod (p.187) -- The archaic lyric and iambus (p.202). Archilochus (7th century B.C.) (p.202) -- Tyrtaeus (7th century B.C.) (p.209) -- Alcman (late 7th century B.C.) (p.212) -- Hipponax (middle 6th century B.C.) (p.216) -- Alcaeus (late 7th century-middle 6th century B.C.) (p.218) -- Sappho (a contemporary of Alcaeus) (p.223) -- Xenophanes (570-early 5th century B.C.) (p.231) -- Mimnermus (2nd half of 7th century B.C.) (p.234) -- Theognis (6th century B.C.) (p.235) -- Solon (c.640-after 561 B.C.) (p.238).
Contents (cont.): Anacreon (c.570-?B.C.) (p.242) -- Ibycus (6th century B.C.) (p.246) -- Simonides (556-468 B.C.) (p.247) -- Pindar (518-after 446 B.C.) (p.251) -- Bacchylides (6th-5th centuries B.C.) (p.263) -- Praxilla (5th century B.C.) (p.266) -- Herodotus (490-c.425 B.C.) (p.267) -- Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.) (p.300) -- Thucydides (middle 5th century-399 B.C.?) (p.334) -- Sophocles (496-406/5 B.C.) (p.357) -- Euripides (485-406 B.C.) (p.404) -- Aristophanes (455?-c.385 B.C.) (446) -- Plato (427-341 B.C.) (p.477) -- Menander (342-c.292 B.C.) (p.512) -- Theophrastus (c.370-287 B.C.) (p.522) -- Callimachus (c.310-240 B.C.) (p.527) -- Apollonius Rhodius (c.295-215 B.C.) (p.534).
Contents (cont.): Theocritus (1st half of 3rd century B.C.) (p.547) -- Herodas (c. 300-250 B.C.) (p.566) -- Erinna (4th century B.C.?) (p.572) -- From the Greek anthology (p.574). Anonymous (p.575) -- Plato (p.575) -- Anyte (early 4th century B.C.?) (p.576) -- Antipater of Sidon (2nd century B.C.) (p.577) -- Diotimos (p.579) -- Nikarchos (p.579) -- Asclepiades of Samos (c.320-?B.C.) (p.580) -- Leonidas of Tarentum (1st half of 3rd century B.C.) (p.580) -- Alexander Aetolus (p.581) -- Dioskorides (p.582) -- Meleager (c.100 B.C.) (p.582) -- Glaukos (p.583) -- Anonymous (p.583) -- Philodemos (p.584) -- Krinagoras (p.585) -- Automedon (p.585) -- Anonymous (p.585) -- Erucius (p.586) -- Antipater of Salonica (1st century B.C.-1st Century A.D.?) (p.586).
Contents (cont.): Marcus Argentarius (1st century B.C.-1st century A.D.?) (p.587) -- Pompeius (p.588) -- Lucilius (p.589) -- Nikarchos (p.589) -- Paulus Silentiarius (6th century A.D.) (p.590) -- Lucretius (98-c.55 B.C.) (p.595) -- Catullus (c.84-c.54 B.C.) (p.604) -- Horace (65-8 B.C.) (p.614) -- Virgil (70-19 B.C.) (p.639) -- Livy (59 B.C.-A.D.17) (p.702) -- Propertius (c.50 B.C.-after 16 B.C.) (p.716) -- Ovid (43 B.C.-A.D. 17) (p.727) -- Tacitus (A.D. 56/7after 117) (p.786) -- Petronius Arbiter (?-A.D. 65) (p.793) -- Juvenal (55?-138?) (p.813) -- Marcus Aurelius (121-180; Emperor, 161-180) (p.827) -- Aurelius Augustinus (Saint Augustine (354-530) (p.833) -- For futher reading (p.853) -- Permissions (p.854) -- Index (p.861).
More than 300 pieces of classical literature, primarily Greek but also some Roman.
Physical Description: 866 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes index.
ISBN: 0393034267
9780393034264

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