(Translators are listed in parentheses after the author of each work)Editor's Introduction
Chronological Outline of Classical Greek Civilization
Part One. Cosmogonies and Cosmologies
THE CREATION (From Theogony) - Hesiod (H. G. Evelyn-White)
THE FIVE AGES (From Works and Days) - Hesiod (H. G. Evelyn-White)
PROMETHEUS (From Theogony) - Hesiod (H. G. Evelyn-White)
ZEUS (From Oedipus Tyrannus) - Sophocles (Robert M. Whitelaw)
DIONYSUS (From The Bacchae) - Euripides (Gilbert Murray)
THE EARTH MOTHER - Homeric Hymn (P. B. shelley)
MINOR DEITIES - Archias, Anyte (J. W. Mackail)
THE TRUE GOD (Fragments) - Xenophanes (John Burnet)
THE WORD (Fragments) - Heraclitus (John Burnet)
THE REAL (Fragments) - Parmenides (John Burnet)
LOVE AND STRIFE (Fragments) - Empedocles (John Burnet)
GOD AND THE WORLD (Timaeus) - Plato (Benjamin Jowett)
THE FIRST CAUSE (From Metaphysics) - Aristotle (W. D. Ross)
Part Two. The Hero
THE EPIC HERO:
THE DEATH OF HECTOR (From The Iliad) - Homer (Alexander Pope)
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD (From The Odyssey) - Homer (E. V. Rieu)
THE PATRIOT:
TWO EPITAPHS - Simonides (J. W. Mackail)
THE ATHLETE:
TWO ODES: Pythia 10; Nemea 6 - Pindar (Richmond Lattimore)
THE TRAGIC HERO:
A TRILOGY: THE ORESTEIA: AGAMEMNON; CHOEPHOROE; EUMENIDES - Aeschylus (George Thomson)
THE GREAT MAN (From Nicomachaen Ethics) - Aristotle (W. D. Ross)
THE HAPPY MAN (From Nicomachaen Ethics) - Aristotle (W. D. Ross)
THE PHILOSOPHIC HERO (From Phaedo) - Plato (Benjamin Jowett)
THE ENGINEER:
ARCHIMEDES (From Book of Histories) - Tzestzes (Ivor Thomas)
Part Three. Nature
PHYSICS:
THE FIRST SCIENCE (From Metaphysics) - Aristotle (W. D. Ross)
NATURE (From Physics) - Aristotle (R. P. Hardie, R. K. Gaye)
MATHEMATICS:
NUMBER AND PROPORTION (From Elements) - Euclid (Ivor Thomas)
MEASUREMENT OF THE EARTH (From On the Circular Motion of the Heavenly Bodies) - Cleomedes (Ivor Thomas)
MEDICINE:
ON AIRS, WATERS AND PLACES - Hippocrates (Francis Adams)
GROWTH (From On the Natural Faculties) - Galen (Arthur John Brock)
Part Four. Man
ETHICS:
MAN (From Antigone) - Sophocles (D. Fitts, R. Fitzgerald)
HUMAN IMPERFECTION - Simonides (Gilbert Highet)
SELF-LOVE (From Nichomachean Ethics) - Aristotle (W. D. Ross)
NATURE AND CULTURE - Antiphon (R. Webster)
SELF-CONTROL (From The Manual) - Epictetus (P.E. Matheson)
LOVE (From Antigone) - Sophocles (D. Fitts, R. Fitzgerald)
EROS (From Symposium) - Plato (Benjamin Jowett)
LITERARY FORMS:
LYRIC:
Alcaeus (C. M. Bowra)
Anacreon (T. F. Higham)
Meleager (J. w. Mackail)
Sappho (Walter Headlam, E. M. Cox)
EPITAPH:
Simonides, Callimachus, Palladas, etc. (J. W. Mackail)
PASTORAL:
IDYLL II: THE SORCERESS - Theocritus (R. C. Trevelyan)
FABLE:
THE OWL AND THE BIRDS; THE MAN AND THE SATYR; THE GOODS AND THE ILLS - Aesop
CHARACTER STUDIES:
Tactlessness; Superstitiousness - Theophrastus (J. M. Edmonds)
BIOGRAPHY:
(From Lives of the Sophists): Polemo; Hermogenes - Philostratus (Wilmer Cave Wright)
Part Five. Society
TYPES OF STATES (From Politics) - Aristotle (W. D. Ross)
THE JUST SOCIETY (From Laws) - Plato (Benjamin Jowett)
PUBLIC EDUCATION (From Laws) - Plato (Benjamin Jowett)
UTOPIA (The Birds) - Aristophanes
PLATO IN SICILY (From Epistle VII) - Plato
THE SICILIAN EXPEDITION (FromPeloponnesian War) - Thucydides - Benjamin Jowett
1. An Account of the Loss of the Essex
2. Excerpt from the Journal of the Surry
Extracts: Memories and Apocrypha
Notes