500–400 BC
The fifth century BC represents the golden age of Greek literature and thought. These works capture the intellectual and artistic peak of classical Greece: the birth of tragedy and comedy, the rise of historical writing, and the foundations of Western political and medical thought.
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Aeschylus
With an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth. Half-title: Loeb Classical Library (Greek authors). Greek and English on opposite pages.
Plays of the Greek Dramatists: Selections from Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes
Half-title: The Caxton Library of the World's Greatest Literature. Contents: Introduction, by Arthur Zeiger. Aeschylus, translated by A. S. Way: Agamemnon; Choephoroe, or The Mourners; The Eumenides, or The Furies. Sophocles, translated by Sir George Young: Antigone; Electra; Oedipus the…
Prometheus Bound
Translated by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, with an introduction by Walter R. Agard. The Little Library of Liberal Arts.
The Complete Greek Tragedies
Edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore. Contents: v. 1. Aeschylus. v. 2. Sophocles. v. 3–4. Euripides. Goodrich Collection.
The Comedies of Aristophanes
A new and literal translation, from the revised text of Dindorf. With notes and extracts from the best metrical versions. By William James Hickie. Half-title: Bohn's Classical Library.
Aristophanes
With the English translation of Benjamin Bickley Rogers. Half-title: The Loeb Classical Library (Greek authors).
Euripides
With an English translation by Arthur S. Way. Half-title: The Loeb Classical Library (Greek authors). Bibliography: v. 1, p. xv. Contents: I. Iphigeneia at Aulis. Rhesus. Hecuba. The Daughters of Troy. Helen. II. Electra. Orestes. Iphigeneia in Taurica. Andromache. Cyclops.…
Hippocrates
With an English translation by W. H. S. Jones. Half-title: The Loeb Classical Library.
The Genuine Works of Hippocrates
Translated from the Greek by Francis Adams. With an introduction by Emerson Crosby Kelly.
Motse, the Neglected Rival of Confucius
By Yi-pao Mei. Half-title: Probsthain's Oriental Series, vol. XX. “Motse” also in Chinese characters.
The Odes of Pindar in English Prose, with Explanatory Notes
To which is added West's dissertation on the Olympic games. Translated by Peter Edmund Laurent. “Editions and commentaries of Pindar quoted in this work”: v. 1, p. xvi.
Pythian Odes
Translated by H. T. Wade-Gery & C. M. Bowra. Goodrich Collection.
Sophocles
With an English translation by F. Storr. Half-title: The Loeb Classical Library. Bibliography: v. 1, p. xv.
The Peloponnesian War: The Thomas Hobbes Translation
Edited by David Grene, with an introduction by Bertrand de Jouvenel.
The Ethical and Political Works of Motse
Translated from the original Chinese text by Yi-pao Mei. Half-title: Probsthain's Oriental Series, vol. XIX.
Xenophon
With an English translation. Half-title: The Loeb Classical Library. Contents: 1. Hellenica, I–V. 2. Hellenica, VI–VII; Anabasis, I–III. 3. Anabasis, IV–VII; Symposium and Apology. 4. Memorabilia and Oeconomicus.
Xenophontis De Cyri Institutione Libri Octo
Graeca recognovit, cum codice ms. Oxoniensi et omnibus fere libris editis contulit, plurimis in locis emendavit, versionem latinam reformavit, observationibus suis, tabulaque geographica auxit et illustravit: notas quoque H. Stephani, Leunclavii, Ae. Porti et Mureti recensitas et castigatas, variantium lectionum…
Cyropaedia
With an English translation by Walter Miller. Half-title: The Loeb Classical Library.