Greek and Roman Classics

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846. Excerpt: ... With toilsome chase of Hector, thrice around 90 The wind-swept walls of Ilion. As he lay, The mournful ghost of his departed friend Before him rose;f in all things like the man; In stature, pleasing countenance and voice, And garments such as living he had worn. 95 It stood above his head, and thus address'd The slumb'ring hero: Sleepest thou, of me Forgetful, my Achilles? When alive, Neglect from thee I knew not; but, when dead, Forgotten is thy friend! My fun'ral rites 100 Perform, that speedily I may the gates Of Hades enter. Now, unpitying ghosts, Pale shadows of departed men, repulse And drive me far away, allowing not To find repose upon the farther shore 105 Of that infernal river. Vainly now, Round the wide-portall'd court of Pluto's hall, I restless wander. Give me but thy hand, I beg thee, sorrowing; for never more Shall I return from Hades to the light, no When fun'ral flames my body have consum'd. Ah! then, no longer shall we sit together, (As erst when living,) from all other friends Retir'd, with pleasant intercourse of souls Conferring and advising.11 Cruel fate 115 Has swallow'd me within her dark abyss; The fate assign'd me on my day of birth! And thee, Achilles, glorious as the gods, The same dire fate attends; to perish here, Under the ramparts of the Trojans bold. 120 Another thing I charge thee, and implore, (Neglect not thou Patroclus' last request,) Let not my bones remain apart from thine, But intermingled; for together we Were in your mansion bred, when me, a boy, 125 My father brought from home, for homicide Deplorable, effect of evil chance, That fatal day, when in my wrath, at quoits, I slew without design, the luckless son Of old Amphidamas:1 thy father then 130 Receiv'd me in his house, and cherish'd me 'With kind regard, and...

Homer's Iliad

Education & Teaching

Sider, David

Konstan, David

Brodwin, Stanley

Studying & Workbooks

There are 27 main reading parts, 15 other parts.

Homer's Odyssey

Literature & Fiction

HOMER

Classics

Monarch Notes on Plato's the Republic and Phaedrus; Symposium; Apology; Crito; and Other Works

Politics & Social Sciences

Rauch, Leo

Politics & Government

The Philosophy of Aristotle

Jancar, Barbara Wolfe

Philosophy

The Theban Plays retell a mythological tale already familiar to the Greeks. Why, then, would Athenians attend the performance of a play with a plot well known to them? The answer, of course, is that they wanted to see how the events unfolded and how they affected the principal characters. If you saw the movie Titanic or Pearl Harbor, you were probably aware ahead of time that the Titanic sank and that Pearl Harbor was left in smoking ruins. Nevertheless, you saw these movies anyway because you wanted to see the persons involved and the events leading up to the tragedies. Athenians approached Sophocles' plays in the same way: They wanted to see how Sophocles told the story with his his extraordinary writing and interpretive talents. .......The three Theban plays tell the continuing story of Oedipus and his daughter Antigone in the following order: (1) Oedipus Rex (also called Oedipus the King and Oedipus Tyrannus), (2) Oedipus at Colonus, and (3) Antigone. Because each play can stand alone as a separate dramatic unit and because Sophocles wrote the plays years apart and out of sequence, they technically do not make up a trilogy, although some writers refer to them as such. Most writers refer to them instead as "The Theban Plays." However, even this name is a misnomer, since the second play takes place at Colonus.

Plays of Sophocles

Walter, William

Virgil's the Aeneid and the Georgics the Eclogues

Loomis, Julia

Dante's Divine Comedy

Gelernt, Jules

Edmund Spenser's the Faerie Queene and Other Works

Grace, William J.

John Milton's Paradise Lost and Other Works

Burkhart, Marian Seldin

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