Ancient Greece
 

 

Readings from Hellas

    Readings from Hellas: Sources for the exploration of Ancient Greece, third edition. These documents and excerpts were originally brought together from public domain sources to be used in conjunction with the Lehman College course HIA 320, History of Ancient Greece. Compilation copyright © 2023, 2013 by Mark B. Wilson.

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