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Paperback The Portable Greek Reader Book

ISBN: 0140150390

ISBN13: 9780140150391

The Portable Greek Reader

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It is commonplace to say that our civilization is built on the ruins of Greece. W. H. Auden's splendid anthology locates the truth behind the truism, while filling in the gaps in our knowledge of a people who gave us so much of our cultural legacy. Every page in The Portable Greek Reader contains some fundamental precursor of the ways in which we think about heroism, destiny, love, politics, tragedy, science, virtue, and thought itself, Included are excerpts from the mythologies of Hesiod; the martial epics of Homer; the dramas of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides; the philosophy of Plato, Aristotle, and Heraclitus; Aesop's fables; poems by Pindar and Sappho; the scientific writings of Euclid, Galen, and Hippocrates; and the history of Thucydides. Presented in their most elegant and authoritative translations, and accompanied by Auden's brilliant introduction, these selections recreate the Greek world in all its splendor, strangeness, and sophistication. "Engaging and full and intelligent ... a command performance, brought off with considerable aplomb." -- The New York Times

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If for no other reason, buy this book for W. H. Auden's remarkably learned 40 page introduction--a survey of the great Greek gift passed down to us. The Portable Greek Reader is a manual on how to think and more importantly, why to think.Andrew D Martin, Docent, The Parthenon, Nashville, Tn
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