Product Description
by Tobias Schneebaum (Author), Herbert M. Howe (Editor)
Here, translated into modern English, are the works of literature, history, science, oratory, and philosophy that constitute the mainstream of classical Greek thought and continue to influence world civilizations. This volume includes:
. Complete translations of Aeschylus Agamemnon, Sophocles Antigone, Euripides Medea, Aristophanes Frogs, and The Constitution of Athens by the Old Oligarch.
. Abridged translations of Homer s Iliad and Odyssey, The Homeric Hymn to Hermes, and Plutarch s Life of Tiberius Gracchus.
. Selections from Hesiod and Lucian; from twenty-eight lyric poets including Sappho, Pindar, and Meleagar; from the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides; and from eight Attic orators, including Isocrates and Demosthenes.
. Selections from the scientific writings of Hippocrates, Archimedes, and Galen.
. Selections from the pre-Socratic philosophers and from Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, and Epictetus.
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Author Biography
Tobias Schneebaum is the author of Where the Spirits Dwell, Keep the River on Your Right, and Secret Places: My Life in New York and New Guinea. From 1973 to 1983 he was assistant to the curator of the Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress in Irian Jaya, Indonesia. He is the subject of a documentary film, Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale, which received the Critic's Choice Award at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival in 2000.
