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

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

Read The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece online, free: 47 chapters, public domain, on Papyras.

Start reading

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Vol. I—Greece
  3. Herodotus
  4. I. Solon's Words of Wisdom to Crœsus
  5. II. Babylon and Its Capture by Cyrus (538 b.c.)
  6. III. The Pyramid of Cheops
  7. IV. The Story of Periander's Son
  8. Thucydides
  9. I. The Athenians and Spartans Contrasted
  10. II. The Plague at Athens (430—425 b.c.)
  11. III. The Sailing of the Athenian Fleet for Sicily (413 b.c.)
  12. IV. Completion of the Athenian Defeat at Syracuse (413 b.c.)
  13. Xenophon
  14. I. The Character of Cyrus the Younger
  15. II. The Greek Army in the Snows of Armenia (400 b.c.)
  16. III. The Battle of Leuctra (371 b.c.)
  17. IV. Of the Army of the Spartans
  18. V. How to Choose and Manage Saddle-Horses
  19. Plato
  20. I. The Image of the Cave
  21. II. Good and Evil
  22. III. Socrates in Praise of Love
  23. IV. The Praise of Socrates by Alcibiades
  24. V. The Refusal of Socrates to Escape from Prison
  25. VI. The Death of Socrates
  26. Aristotle
  27. I. What Things Are Pleasant
  28. II. The Life Most Desirable
  29. III. Ideal Husbands and Wives
  30. IV. Happiness as an End of Human Action
  31. Polybius
  32. I. The Battle of Cannæ (216 b.c.)
  33. II. Hannibal's Advance on Rome (211 b.c.)
  34. III. The Defense of Syracuse by Archimedes (214-212 b.c.)
  35. Plutarch
  36. I. Demosthenes and Cicero Compared
  37. II. The Assassination of Cæsar (44 b.c.)
  38. III. Cleopatra's Barge
  39. IV. The Death of Antony and Cleopatra
  40. Epictetus
  41. I. Of Freedom
  42. II. Of Friendship
  43. III. The Philosopher and the Crowd
  44. Lucian
  45. I. A Descent to the Unknown
  46. II. Among the Philosophers
  47. III. Of Liars and Lying

More books on Papyras