The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece
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- INTRODUCTIONSample
- HERODOTUS
- SOLON'S WORDS OF WISDOM TO CRŒSUS[2]
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- (538 b.c.)
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- THE PYRAMID OF CHEOPS[14]
- THE STORY OF PERIANDER'S SON[15]
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- THUCYDIDES
- THE ATHENIANS AND SPARTANS CONTRASTED[19]
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- (430—425 b.c.)
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- (413 b.c.)
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- (413 b.c.)
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- XENOPHON
- THE CHARACTER OF CYRUS THE YOUNGER[45]
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- (400 b.c.)
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- (371 b.c.)
- OF THE ARMY OF THE SPARTANS[53]
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- HOW TO CHOOSE AND MANAGE SADDLE-HORSES[54]
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- PLATO
- THE IMAGE OF THE CAVE[57]
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- GOOD AND EVIL[59]
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- SOCRATES IN PRAISE OF LOVE[60]
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- THE PRAISE OF SOCRATES BY ALCIBIADES[66]
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- THE REFUSAL OF SOCRATES TO ESCAPE FROM PRISON[71]
- THE DEATH OF SOCRATES[72]
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- ARISTOTLE
- WHAT THINGS ARE PLEASANT[75]
- THE LIFE MOST DESIRABLE[76]
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- IDEAL HUSBANDS AND WIVES[77]
- HAPPINESS AS AN END OF HUMAN ACTION[78]
- POLYBIUS
- (216 b.c.)
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- (211 b.c.)
- (214-212 b.c.)
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- PLUTARCH
- DEMOSTHENES AND CICERO COMPARED[93]
- (44 b.c.)
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- CLEOPATRA'S BARGE[103]
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- THE DEATH OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA[105]
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- EPICTETUS
- OF FREEDOM[110]
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- OF FRIENDSHIP[111]
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- THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE CROWD[113]
- LUCIAN
- A DESCENT TO THE UNKNOWN[115]
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- AMONG THE PHILOSOPHERS[121]
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- OF LIARS AND LYING[125]
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