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The Portable Greek Reader Paperback - 1977
by W. H. Auden
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It is commonplace to say that our civilization is built on the ruins of Greece. W. H. Auden’s splendid anthology locates the truth behind the truism, while filling in the gaps in our knowledge of a people who gave us so much of our cultural legacy.
Every page in The Portable Greek Reader contains some fundamental precursor of the ways in which we think about heroism, destiny, love, politics, tragedy, science, virtue, and thought itself, Included are excerpts from the mythologies of Hesiod; the martial epics of Homer; the dramas of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides; the philosophy of Plato, Aristotle, and Heraclitus; Aesop’s fables; poems by Pindar and Sappho; the scientific writings of Euclid, Galen, and Hippocrates; and the history of Thucydides. Presented in their most elegant and authoritative translations, and accompanied by Auden’s brilliant introduction, these selections recreate the Greek world in all its splendor, strangeness, and sophistication.
“Engaging and full and intelligent … a command performance, brought off with considerable aplomb.”
—The New York Times
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- Title The Portable Greek Reader
- Author W. H. Auden
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 736
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Classics, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Publication date 1977-08-25
- ISBN 9780140150391 / 0140150390
- Weight 1.13 lbs (0.51 kg)
- Dimensions 7.75 x 5.12 x 1.34 in (19.69 x 13.00 x 3.40 cm)
- Age range 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Greece
- Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Library of Congress subjects Greek literature
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 77008047
- Dewey Decimal Code 880.8
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