Readings from Hellas

Ancient Rome

3 The Greek Dark Age

3.1	Homer / Agamemnon’s Insult
3.2	Homer / The Death of Patroclos
3.3	Homer / Nausicaa and the Stranger
3.4	Homer / Odysseus and the Suitors
3.5	Hesiod / The Beginnings of Things

4 Archaic Greece

4.1	Various / Accounts of the Hellenic Games
4.2	Sappho / Selected Poems
4.3	Hesiod / On Labor
4.4	Herodotus and Strabo / The Founding of Cyrene
4.5	Various Writers / Accounts of Religious Beliefs

5 Sparta and the Art of War

5.1	Plutarch / The Great Rhetra of Sparta
5.2	Plutarch / Sayings of Spartan Women
5.3	Xenophon / The Spartan Polity
5.4	Herodotos / The Spartan Way of Living
5.5	Aristotle / On the Spartan Constitution

6 Athens and the Art of Society

6.1	Solon / The Rule of Law
6.2	Herodotus / The Tyranny at Corinth
6.3	Thucydides / On Aristogeiton and Harmodius
6.4	Herodotus / The Battle of Thermopylae
6.5	Aeschylus / from The Persians

7 The Legacy of the Persian Wars

7.1	Pseudo-Xenophon / On the Athenian Constitution
7.2	Euripides / from Medea
7.3	Plutarch / Pericles and Cimon
7.4	Various / Documents on Greek Slavery
7.5	Antiphon / Arguments in an Accidental Homicide

10 War Between the Greeks

10.1	Thucydides / Perikles’s Funeral Oration
10.2	Thucydides / Civil War in Corcyra
10.3	Thucydides / The Plague at Athens
10.4	Thucydides / The Melian Dialog
10.5	Andocides / A Charge of Sacrilege

11 The Fourth Century Crisis

11.1	Plato / The Death of Socrates
11.2	Plato / The Allegory of the Cave
11.3	Cornelius Nepos / On Epaminondas
11.4	Xenophon / The Battle of Leuctra
11.5	Unknown / Athenian Bankers

12 The Rise of Makedon

12.1	Justin / The Beginning of Philip of Macedon's Reign
12.2	Demosthenes / The First Philippic
12.2	Isocrates / Address to Philip
12.3	Demosthenes / The Last Stand
12.4	Plutarch / The Murder of Philip II

13 Alexander the Great

13.1	Aristotle / The Ideal State
13.2	Plutarch / On Alexander
13.3	Arrian / Speech of Alexander the Great
13.4	Plutarch / Death of Alexander

14 The Hellenistic World

14.1	Athenaeus / The Procession of Ptolemy II
14.2	Theocritus / Women at the Adonis Festival
14.3	Diogenes Laërtius / On Zeno the Stoic
14.4	Polybius / The Destruction of Corinth