The book of the ancient Greeks: An introduction to the history and civilization of Greece from the coming of the Greeks to the conquest of Corinth by Rome in 146 B.C.Mills, Dorothy
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The book of the ancient Greeks: An introduction to the history and civilization of Greece from the coming of the Greeks to the conquest of Corinth by Rome in 146 B.C.
Mills, Dorothy
Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C.; Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C.
GROTE. _History of Greece_. This book was written some time ago,
but it is still the most famous history of Greece.
C. H. and H. B. HAWES. _Crete the Forerunner of Greece_.
BAIKIE. _The Sea Kings of Crete_.
R. W. LIVINGSTONE. The Greek Genius and its Meaning to Us.
R. W. LIVINGSTONE. (Edited by) _The Pageant of Greece_.
R. W. LIVINGSTONE. (Edited by) _The Legacy of Greece_.
GILBERT MURRAY. _The Rise of the Greek Epic_.
A. E. ZIMMERN. _The Greek Commonwealth_.
E. N. GARDINER. _Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals_.
ETHEL B. ABRAHAMS. _Greek Dress_.
EMILY JAMES PUTNAM. _The Lady_.
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E. POTTIER. _Douris and the Painters of Greek Vases_.
G. M. A. RICHTER. _The Craft of Athenian Pottery_.
G. M. A. RICHTER. _Handbook to the Classical Collection in the
Metropolitan Museum, New York_. An excellent introduction to the
study of Greek Art.
KENNETH J. FREEMAN. _The Schools of Hellas_.
A. E. HAIGH. _The Attic Theatre_.
E. A. GARDNER. _A Handbook of Greek Sculpture_.
D. G. HOGARTH. _Philip and Alexander_.
PUTNAM. _Authors and their Public in Ancient Times_.
MAHAFFY. _Social Life in Greece_.
MAHAFFY. _Alexander's Empire_.
II. _Greek Writers_
No reading _about_ Greece can take the place of reading what the
Greeks themselves wrote. References to Greek writers will have been
found all through this book and in the list of acknowledgments at the
beginning. The following list of the more important writers and
their works referred to in this book has been put together for the
purpose of easier reference.
HOMER. _The Iliad_, translated by Lang, Leaf and Myers.
HOMER. _The Odyssey_, translated by Butcher and Lang.
HOMER. _The Homeric Hymns_, translated by Andrew Lang.
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AESCHYLUS. Translated by A. S. Way and also by E. M. Cookson.
AESCHYLUS. _The Agamemnon_, translated by Gilbert Murray.
SOPHOCLES. Translated by R. C. Jebb.
SOPHOCLES. _Oedipus, King of Thebes_, translated by Gilbert Murray.
EURIPIDES. Translated by Gilbert Murray.
ARISTOPHANES. Translated by B. B. Rogers.
_The Frogs_, translated by Gilbert Murray.
PLATO. Translated by Benjamin Jowett.
PLATO. _The Republic_, translated by Davies and Vaughan.
PLATO. _Trial and Death of Socrates_, translated by F. J. Church.
ARISTOTLE. _Politics_, translated by Benjamin Jowett and also by J.
E. C. Welldon.
HERODOTUS. Translated by G. C. Macaulay.
THUCYDIDES. Translated by Benjamin Jowett.
XENOPHON. Translated by H. G. Dakyns.
PLUTARCH. Translated by Dryden, revised by A. H. Clough.
DEMOSTHENES. _Public Orations_, translated by A. W.
Pickard-Cambridge.
_The Claim of Antiquity_, an excellent pamphlet published by the
Oxford University Press, gives a much fuller and more complete list
of books and translations for those who would like further
suggestions.
III. _Greek Sculpture and Architecture_
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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