The Best Of The World's Classics (Restricted To Prose) Volume I - Greece: 484 b.c.-200 a.d‪.‬

Table of Contents Introduction. By Henry Cabot Lodge.

Herodotus-(Born probably in 484 b.c., died probably in 424.)

I: Solon's Words of Wisdom to Crœsus. (From Book I of the "History." Translated by Rawlinson)

II: Babylon and Its Capture by Cyrus. (From Book I of the "History." Translated by Taylor)

III: The Pyramid of Cheops. (From Book II of the "History." Translated by Rawlinson)

IV: The Story of Periander's Son. (From Book III of the "History." Translated by Rawlinson)


Thucydides—(Born about 471 b.c., died about 401.)

I: The Athenians and Spartans Contrasted. (From Book I of the "Peloponnesian War." Translated by Benjamin Jowett)

II: The Plague at Athens. (From Book II of the "Peloponnesian War." Translated by Benjamin Jowett)

III: The Sailing of the Athenian Fleet for Sicily. (From Book VI of the "Peloponnesian War." Translated by Benjamin Jowett)

IV: Completion of the Athenian Defeat at Syracuse. (From Book VII of the "Peloponnesian War." Translated by Benjamin Jowett)


Xenophon

I: The Character of Cyrus the Younger. (From the "Anabasis." Translated by J. S. Watson)

II: The Greek Army in the Snows of Armenia. (From the "Anabasis." Translated by Watson)

III: The Battle of Leuctra. (From Book VI of the "Hellenica." Translated by Watson)

IV: Of the Army of the Spartans. (From the treatise on "The Government of Lacedæmon." Translated by: Watson)

V: How to Choose and Manage Saddle Horses. (From the treatise on "Horsemanship." Translated by Watson)


Plato

I: The Image of the Cave. (From the "Republic." Translated by Benjamin Jowett)

II: Good and Evil. (From the "Protagoras." Translated by Benjamin Jowett)

III: Socrates in Praise of Love. (From the "Symposium." Translated by Benjamin Jowett)

IV: The Praise of Socrates by Alcibiades. (From the "Symposium." Translated by Benjamin Jowett)

V: The Refusal of Socrates to Escape from Prison. (From the "Crito." Translated by Benjamin Jowett)

VI: The Death of Socrates. (From the "Phædo." Translated by Benjamin Jowett)


Aristotle

I: What Things are Pleasant. (From Book I of the "Rhetoric." Translated by Buckley)

II: The Life Most Desirable. (From Book VII of the "Politics." Translated by Walford)

III: Ideal Husbands and Wives. (From Book I of the "Economics." Translated by Walford)

IV: Happiness as an End of Human Action. (From Book X of the "Nicomachean Ethics." Translated by Browne)


Polybius

I: The Battle of Cannæ. (From Book IV of the "Histories." Translated by Shuckburgh)

II: Hannibal's Advance on Rome. (From Book IX of the "Histories." Translated by Shuckburgh)

III: The Defense of Syracuse by Archimedes. (From Book VIII of the "Histories." Translated by Shuckburgh)


Plutarch

I: Demosthenes and Cicero Compared. (From the "Lives." Translated by Sir Thomas North)

II: The Assassination of Cæsar. (From the "Lives." Translated by North)

III: Cleopatra's Barge. (From the "Life of Mark Antony." Translated by North)

IV: The Death of Antony and Cleopatra. (From the "Life of Mark Antony." Translated by North)


Epictetus

I: Of Freedom. (From the "Discourses." Translated by Thomas Wentworth Higginson)

II: Of Friendship. (From the "Discourses." Translated by Higginson)

III: The Philosopher and the Crowd. (From the "Discourses." Translated by Higginson)


LucianI: A Descent to the Unknown. (From "Menippus." Translated by H. W. and F. G. Fowler)

II: Among the Philosophers. (From the "Fisher: A Resurrection Piece." Translated by H. W. and F. G. Fowler)

III: Of Liars and Lying. (From the "Liar." Translated by H. W. and F. G. Fowler)