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Historical orientation: Browning, The Greek World: Classical, Byzantine and Modern, Thames and Hudson paperback 2000 (orig. 1988) |
Thomas Gallant, Modern Greece (Brief Histories), E. Arnold 2001 | ||
An ancient historian: Thucydides, edited by Paul Woodruff: On Justice, Power and Human Nature, Hackett |
Ancient Greek drama: Aeschylus's Agamemnon, Sophocles' Oedipus, Euripides' Bacchae, Aristophanes' Lysistrata. (Ten Greek Plays, Houghton Mifflin) |
Ancient Epic: Homer's Iliad--Lattimore's WWII-era translation, Univ. of Chicago Press | |
| Plato (427-347 BCE)--the most influential philosopher? Grube's translation of Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo and Meno, Hackett ed. | Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), classicist and philosopher, bridges ancient tragedy and modern Vitalism in The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music(1872)--canonical English trans. in Dover Thrift Edition | ||
| Selections from the Penguin Book of Greek Verse: poetry from the Byzantine and Ottoman periods. (Photocopies since the book isn't available) | The Greek Bible: a bit of Hebrew Old Testament translated in Alexandria (ca. 270 BCE); Gospel of John, originated in Greek, late 1st cent. CE | Kazantzakis's Zorba the Greek, translated from Bios kai Politeia tou Alexi Zorba, Simon and Schuster paperback ed., orig. 1953. | |
| Ricks, Modern Greek Writing, Peter Owen Ltd. paperback 2003: we'll read work of the 1821 generation (Solomos, Makriyannis), and later. | Byon, and maybe some other Philhellenes: selected poetry and prose (photocopies) | ||
| Henry Miller's travels in Greece: The Colossus of Maroussi, 1941, New Directions paperback | Miller's Greek friend Seferis, in the Ricks anthology | Other 20th-cent. poetry: Cavafy, Sikelianos, Anghelaki-Rooke, Mastoraki. . . | |