Essential passages from the works of four "fathers of history"—Herodotus's History, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Xenophon's Anabasis, and Polybius's Histories.
This study traces Greek science through the work of the Pythagoreans, the Presocratic natural philosophers, the Hippocratic writers, Plato, the fourth-century B.C. astronomers, and Aristotle. G. E. R. Lloyd also investigates the relationships between scie
"Technical progress, economic growth, productivity, even efficiency have not been significant goals since the beginning of time," declares M. I. Finley in his classic work. The states of the ancient Mediterranean world had no recognizable real-property ma
Los griegos de la Antigüedad constituye un ordenado friso por el que discurren los aspectos más significativos de la vida en la Grecia clásica. Desde el período arcaico hasta el esplendor del período helenístico, el libro traza un panorama de imáge
Preface IntroductionGreeceHomerHesiod The archaic lyric & iambusArchilochus (7th century B.C.)Tyrtaeus (7th century B.C.)Alcman (late 7th century B.C.)Hipponax (middle 6th century B.C.)Alcaeus (late 7th century-middle 6th century B.C.) Sappho (a conte
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Leading the field once again, Norton is proud to publish the anthology for the new century, The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Second Edition. Now published in six paperback volumes (packaged in two attractive slipcases), the new anthology boasts s
Leading the field once again, Norton is proud to publish the anthology for the new century, The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Second Edition. Now published in six paperback volumes (packaged in two attractive slipcases), the new anthology boasts s
A glorious boxed set featuring Robert Fagles's award-winning translations of the three great epics of Western literatureONE OF THE PREEMINENT translators of our time, Robert Fagles's interpretations of these epic poems give new life to three seminal works
