The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece
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- World's ClassicsSample
- Preface
- BABYLON AND ITS CAPTURE BY CYRUS
- THE PYRAMID OF CHEOPS
- THE STORY OF PERIANDER'S SON
- THE ATHENIANS AND SPARTANS CONTRASTED
- Preface
- THE PLAGUE AT ATHENS
- Chapter
- COMPLETION OF THE ATHENIAN DEFEAT AT SYRACUSE
- Preface
- THE CHARACTER OF CYRUS THE YOUNGER
- Chapter
- THE BATTLE OF LEUCTRA
- OF THE ARMY OF THE SPARTANS
- HOW TO CHOOSE AND MANAGE SADDLE-HORSES
- Preface
- THE IMAGE OF THE CAVE
- GOOD AND EVIL
- SOCRATES IN PRAISE OF LOVE
- THE PRAISE OF SOCRATES BY ALCIBIADES
- Preface
- Chapter
- THE DEATH OF SOCRATES
- WHAT THINGS ARE PLEASANT
- THE LIFE MOST DESIRABLE
- IDEAL HUSBANDS AND WIVES
- HAPPINESS AS AN END OF HUMAN ACTION
- HANNIBAL'S ADVANCE ON ROME
- THE DEFENSE OF SYRACUSE BY ARCHIMEDES
- DEMOSTHENES AND CICERO COMPARED
- Preface
- CLEOPATRA'S BARGE
- THE DEATH OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
- Preface
- OF FREEDOM
- OF FRIENDSHIP
- THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE CROWD
- Preface
- OF LIARS AND LYING