The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece

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


XENOPHON--(Born about 430 B.C., died about 357.)

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 Lacedaemon."
             Translated by Watson)

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


PLATO--(Born about 427 B.C., died in 347.)

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 "Phaedo." Translated by Benjamin Jowett)


ARISTOTLE--(Born in 384 B.C., died in 322.)

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--(Born in 204 B.C., died about 125.)

I         The Battle of Cannae.
            (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--(Born about 46 A.D., died in 125.)

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

II        The Assassination of Caesar.
            (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--(Born about the middle of the first century.)

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

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