Greek classics / by Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Includes glossary, timeline, bibliography and index.

INTRODUCTION -- GREEK EPIC POETRY -- Homer -- Homer and the epic -- The Iliad -- The Odyssey -- Hesiod -- Works and days -- Theogony -- Minor Works -- GREEK DRAMA -- Origins -- The theatre -- Costumes -- Acting -- The chorus -- Plot -- Structure -- GREEK TRAGEDY -- Aeschylus -- Agamemnon -- The choephore -- The Eumenides -- Prometheus Bound -- The Persians -- The seven against Thebes -- The suppliants -- Sophocles -- Oedipus Rex -- Oedipus at Colonus -- Antigone -- Ajax -- Electra -- The trachiniae -- Philoctetes -- Euripides -- Electra -- Medea -- Hippolytus -- Andromache -- The Trojan women -- Alcestis -- The Heracleidae -- Hecuba -- The suppliants -- Heracles -- Ion -- Iphigenia in Tauris -- Helena -- The Phoenician women -- Orestes -- The Bacchae -- Iphigenia in Aulis -- The Cyclops -- GREEK COMEDY -- Aristophanes -- Lysistrata -- The birds -- The clouds -- The frogs -- The wasps -- Peace -- Menander -- The shearing of glycera -- The girl from samos -- The arbitration -- Dyskolos (The Grouch) -- GREEK PROSE WRITERS -- Lysias -- Demosthenes -- Aesop -- GREEK LYRIC POETS -- Sappho -- Pindar -- Alcaeus -- Lesser lyric poets -- GREEK HISTORIANS -- An introduction to the classical historians -- Herodotus Thucydides -- Xenophon -- GREEK PHILOSOPHERS -- Plato -- Euthyphro -- Apology -- Crito -- Phaedo -- Meno -- Ion -- Symposium -- The Republic -- Aristotle -- Nichomachaen Ethics -- Poetics