1000–800 BC
This bookshelf gathers important works connected to Chinese ritual, poetry, early science, and the Homeric tradition from 1000 to 800 BC. These selections include Chinese ceremonial and poetic traditions, classical anthologies, works connected to the history of science, and major editions and translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Together, they introduce visitors to foundational literary, cultural, ethical, and historical traditions that shaped ancient China, Greece, and later world literature.
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Lotus and Chrysanthemum: An Anthology of Chinese and Japanese Poetry
Selected and edited by Joseph Lewis French. Symbolic drawings by Samuel Bernard Schaeffer. Black and gold edition.
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
With an English translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Half-title: Loeb Classical Library.
Homeri Opera
Recognoverunt brevique adnotatione critica instruxerunt David B. Monro et Thomas W. Allen. Editio altera. Scriptorum classicorum bibliotheca Oxoniensis. Vols. 3–5 edited by Thomas W. Allen. Contents: t. I–II. Ilias. t. III–IV. Odyssea. t. V. Hymni, Cyclus, Fragmenta, Margites, Batrachomyomachia, Vitae.…
The Iliad
With an English translation by A. T. Murray. Loeb Classical Library (Greek authors). At head of title: Homer. Bibliography: v. 1, p. xvi–xviii.
The Complete Works of Homer: The Iliad and the Odyssey
The Iliad done into English prose by Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, Ernest Myers; the Odyssey done into English prose by S. H. Butcher and Andrew Lang. Half-title: The Modern Library of the World's Best Books.
The Odyssey of Homer, in the English Verse Translation by Alexander Pope
Illustrated with the classical designs of John Flaxman.
The Iliad of Homer, in the English Verse Translation by Alexander Pope
Illustrated with the classical designs of John Flaxman.
The Odyssey of Homer
Translated by Samuel Butler, edited by Louise Ropes Loomis. Published for the Classics Club.
Chapman’s Homer: The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Lesser Homerica
Edited, with introductions, textual notes, commentaries, and glossaries, by Allardyce Nicoll. Bollingen Series, 41. Contents: v. 1. The Iliad. v. 2. The Odyssey & the lesser Homerica.
The Chinese Classics
Edited and translated by James Legge. Volumes are shelved by period: v. 1 and v. 5 (600–500 BC, items 22A and 22B), v. 2 (400–300 BC, 105A), v. 3 (2000–1000 BC, 13A) and v. 4 (1000–800 BC, 8C).
The Classic Anthology Defined by Confucius
Translated by Ezra Pound. Main entry: Shih ching.
Introduction to the History of Science
By George Sarton. Published for the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
The I-li, or Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial
Translated from the Chinese with introduction, notes and plans, by John Steele. Probsthain's Oriental Series, vol. VIII–IX. Title in Chinese characters at head of t.-p.