{"product_id":"9781605012773","title":"The Best Of The World's Classics (Restricted To Prose) Volume I - Greece: 484 b.c.-200 a.d.","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e Introduction. By Henry Cabot Lodge.\u003cbr\u003e   Herodotus-(Born probably in 484 b.c., died probably in 424.)\u003cbr\u003e   I: Solon's Words of Wisdom to Crœsus. (From Book I of the \"History.\" Translated by Rawlinson)\u003cbr\u003e   II: Babylon and Its Capture by Cyrus. (From Book I of the \"History.\" Translated by Taylor)\u003cbr\u003e   III: The Pyramid of Cheops. (From Book II of the \"History.\" Translated by Rawlinson)\u003cbr\u003e   IV: The Story of Periander's Son. (From Book III of the \"History.\" Translated by Rawlinson)\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e   Thucydides—(Born about 471 b.c., died about 401.)\u003cbr\u003e   I: The Athenians and Spartans Contrasted. (From Book I of the \"Peloponnesian War.\" Translated by Benjamin Jowett)\u003cbr\u003e   II: The Plague at Athens. (From Book II of the \"Peloponnesian War.\" Translated by Benjamin Jowett)\u003cbr\u003e   III: The Sailing of the Athenian Fleet for Sicily. (From Book VI of the \"Peloponnesian War.\" Translated by Benjamin Jowett)\u003cbr\u003e   IV: Completion of the Athenian Defeat at Syracuse. (From Book VII of the \"Peloponnesian War.\" Translated by Benjamin Jowett)\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e   Xenophon\u003cbr\u003e   I: The Character of Cyrus the Younger. (From the \"Anabasis.\" Translated by J. S. Watson)\u003cbr\u003e   II: The Greek Army in the Snows of Armenia. (From the \"Anabasis.\" Translated by Watson)\u003cbr\u003e   III: The Battle of Leuctra. (From Book VI of the \"Hellenica.\" Translated by Watson)\u003cbr\u003e   IV: Of the Army of the Spartans. (From the treatise on \"The Government of Lacedæmon.\" Translated by: Watson)\u003cbr\u003e   V: How to Choose and Manage Saddle Horses. (From the treatise on \"Horsemanship.\" Translated by Watson)\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e   Plato\u003cbr\u003e   I: The Image of the Cave. (From the \"Republic.\" Translated by Benjamin Jowett)\u003cbr\u003e   II: Good and Evil. (From the \"Protagoras.\" Translated by Benjamin Jowett)\u003cbr\u003e   III: Socrates in Praise of Love. (From the \"Symposium.\" Translated by Benjamin Jowett)\u003cbr\u003e   IV: The Praise of Socrates by Alcibiades. (From the \"Symposium.\" Translated by Benjamin Jowett)\u003cbr\u003e   V: The Refusal of Socrates to Escape from Prison. (From the \"Crito.\" Translated by Benjamin Jowett)\u003cbr\u003e   VI: The Death of Socrates. (From the \"Phædo.\" Translated by Benjamin Jowett)\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e   Aristotle\u003cbr\u003e   I: What Things are Pleasant. (From Book I of the \"Rhetoric.\" Translated by Buckley)\u003cbr\u003e   II: The Life Most Desirable. (From Book VII of the \"Politics.\" Translated by Walford)\u003cbr\u003e   III: Ideal Husbands and Wives. (From Book I of the \"Economics.\" Translated by Walford)\u003cbr\u003e   IV: Happiness as an End of Human Action. (From Book X of the \"Nicomachean Ethics.\" Translated by Browne)\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e   Polybius\u003cbr\u003e   I: The Battle of Cannæ. (From Book IV of the \"Histories.\" Translated by Shuckburgh)\u003cbr\u003e   II: Hannibal's Advance on Rome. (From Book IX of the \"Histories.\" Translated by Shuckburgh)\u003cbr\u003e   III: The Defense of Syracuse by Archimedes. (From Book VIII of the \"Histories.\" Translated by Shuckburgh)\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e   Plutarch\u003cbr\u003e   I: Demosthenes and Cicero Compared. (From the \"Lives.\" Translated by Sir Thomas North)\u003cbr\u003e   II: The Assassination of Cæsar. (From the \"Lives.\" Translated by North)\u003cbr\u003e   III: Cleopatra's Barge. (From the \"Life of Mark Antony.\" Translated by North)\u003cbr\u003e   IV: The Death of Antony and Cleopatra. (From the \"Life of Mark Antony.\" Translated by North)\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e   Epictetus\u003cbr\u003e   I: Of Freedom. (From the \"Discourses.\" Translated by Thomas Wentworth Higginson)\u003cbr\u003e   II: Of Friendship. (From the \"Discourses.\" Translated by Higginson)\u003cbr\u003e   III: The Philosopher and the Crowd. (From the \"Discourses.\" Translated by Higginson)\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e   LucianI: A Descent to the Unknown. (From \"Menippus.\" Translated by H. W. and F. G. Fowler)\u003cbr\u003e   II: Among the Philosophers. (From the \"Fisher: A Resurrection Piece.\" Translated by H. W. and F. G. Fowler)\u003cbr\u003e   III: Of Liars and Lying. (From the \"Liar.\" Translated by H. W. and F. G. 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