Ancient Greece: Documentary Perspectives
Edition: 2
Copyright: 1997
Pages: 342
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Copyright: 1997
Pages: 342
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Ancient Greece: Documentary Perspectives, Second Edition by Stylianos V. Spyridakis and Bradley P. Nystrom, offers more than one hundred translations of important ancient Greek texts. This text is a balanced collection of material representing all aspects of Greek civilization, from the Classical Age through the Roman era, and is available to all students studying ancient Greece. The translations of these important texts are highly readable and will illuminate the history and culture of ancient Greece.
This volume contains chapters on politics and society, philosophy, religion, the military, the role of women in Greek life, drama, poetry, and science. Ancient Greece: Documentary Perspectives is designed for use in college and university courses on ancient Greece, where students often have little exposure to primary materials representing Greek civilization.
Ancient Greece: Documentary Perspectives presents literary testimony to the monumental achievements of classical Greece as well as glimpses of the private thoughts and lives of ordinary Greeks.
Preface
I Politics and Society
Portrait of the Tyrant: Aristotle, Politics
Poetry and Politics: Theognis of Megara, Elegies
The Fundamentals of Democracy: Aristotle, Politics
Solons Abolition of Debts: Aristotle, Constitution of Athens
The Democratic Reforms of Cleisthenes: Aristotle, Constitution of Athens
Pericles Funeral Oration: Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
An Athenian Statesman and Politician¿Aristides the Just: Plutarch, Aris tides
A Critique of Athenian Democracy: The "Old Oligarch,"
The Constitution of the Athenians
The Mixed Constitution: Aristotle, Politics
The Spartan Constitution and Society: Xenophon, Constitution of the
Lacedaemonians
Defects of the Spartan Constitution: Polybius, History
The Oligarchic Constitution of Crete: Aristotle, Politics
The Delian League and Athenian Power: Thucydides, History of the
Peloponesian War
The Melian Dialogue: Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
The Thirty Tyrants: Xenophon, Hellenica
Justice in the Marketplace: Lysias, Against the Grain Merchants
A Call to Arms: Demosthenes, Third Philippic
The Corinthian Congress - The End of Greek Independence: Diodorus,
Historical Library
Alexander and Oecumene: Plutarch, On the Fortune of Alexander
A Hellenistic Federal Experiment - The Achaean League: Polybius, History
Music as a Civilizing Force¿The Case of the Arcadians: Polybius, History
Justifying Slavery: Aristotle, Politics
"For the Greater Glory of Zeus" - The Ancient Olympics: Pausanias,
Description of Greece
II Philosophy
Heraclitus of Ephesus - The Doctrine of Universal Flux: Selected Fragments
A Conversation with a Sophist: Plato, Protagoras
Socrates on the Sophists: Xenophon, Memorabilia
Socrates on Trial: Plato, Apology
The Dualism of Body and Soul: Plato, Phaedo
The Death of Socrates: Plato, Phaedo
The Allegory of the Cave: Plato, Republic
Socrates on Civic Obligations: Plato, Crito
The Megalopsychos - Man of Great Soul: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Character Sketches: Theophrastus, Characters
Diogenes the Cynic and the Simple Life: Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent
Philosophers
Epicurus Letter to Menoeceus: Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
A Late Greek Stoic of the Roman Empire¿Epictetus of Hierapolis: Selected Fragments
III Religion
The Origin of the Gods: Hesiod, Theogony 156 The Five Ages: Hesiod, Works and Days
The Homeric Hymn to Gaia, Mother of All: Allen-Halliday-Sikes, eds., The Homeric Hymns
The First Philosophic Theologian - ophanes of Colophon: Selected Fragments
Euhemerus of Messene and the Human Origin of the Gods: Diodorus, Historical Library
Empedocles on Reincarnation: Selected Fragments
Dionysus, God of Wine: Diodorus, Historical Library
The Sanctuary of Asclepius at Epidaurus: Pausanias, Description of Greece
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