This book is conceived as an introduction to the great minds of Greece through an examination of characteristic attitudes exhibited in the works of fourteen major authors.

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Homer: The Odyssey

Hesiod: Theogony, The Works and Days

Sappho

Pindar

Aeschylus: Agamemnon, The Eumenides

Sophocles: Oedipus the king

Euripides: Medea, The Bacchae

Aristophanes: Lysistrata

Herodotus

Thucydides

Socrates and Plato: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, The Republic

Aristotle: Metaphysics, Poetics

Demosthenes

Lucian

Suggestions for further reading

Glossary