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The Portable Greek Reader
[Paperback - 1977]
w.h. auden
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Sub-category: Literary Criticism
Additional Category: Classics - Philosophy
Publisher: Penguin Classics | ISBN: 9780140150391 | Pages: 736
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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

About the Author

W.H. Auden was born in 1907 and went to Oxford University, where he became Professor of Poetry from 1956 to 1960. After the publication of his Poems in 1930, he became the acknowledged leader of the thirties poets . His poetic output was prolific, and he also wrote verse plays in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood, with whom he visited china. In 1946 he became a U.S. citizen. He died in 1973.

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