The Norton Book of Classical Literature

by Bernard Knox

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Summary

Preface
Introduction
Greece
Homer
Hesiod
The archaic lyric & iambus
Archilochus (7th century B.C.)
Tyrtaeus (7th century B.C.)
Alcman (late 7th century B.C.)
Hipponax (middle 6th century B.C.)
Alcaeus (late 7th century-middle 6th century B.C.)
Sappho (a contemporary of Alcaeus)
Xenophanes (570-early 5th century B.C.)
Mimnermus (2nd half of 7th century B.C.)
Theognis (6th century B.C.)
Solon (c.640-after 561 B.C.)
Anacreon (c.570-?B.C.)
Ibycus (6th century B.C.)
Simonides (556-468 B.C.)
Pindar (518-after 446 B.C.)
Bacchylides (6th-5th centuries B.C.)
Praxilla (5th century B.C.)
Herodotus (490-c.425 B.C.)
Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.)
Thucydides (middle 5th century-399 B.C.?)
Sophocles (496-406/5 B.C.)
Euripides (485-406 B.C.)
Aristophanes (455?-c.385 B.C.)
Plato (427-341 B.C.)
Menander (342-c.292 B.C.)
Theophrastus (c.370-287 B.C.)
Callimachus (c.310-240 B.C.)
Apollonius Rhodius (c.295-215 B.C.)
Theocritus (1st half of 3rd century B.C.)
Herodas (c. 300-250 B.C.)
Erinna (4th century B.C.?)
From the Greek anthology
Anonymous
Plato
Anyte (early 4th century B.C.?)
Antipater of Sidon (2nd century B.C.)
Diotimos
Nikarchos
Asclepiades of Samos (c.320-?B.C.)
Leonidas of Tarentum (1st half of 3rd century B.C.)
Alexander Aetolus
Dioskorides
Meleager (c.100 B.C.)
Glaukos
Anonymous
Philodemos
Krinagoras
Automedon
Anonymous
Erucius
Antipater of Salonica (1st century B.C.-1st Century A.D.?)
Marcus Argentarius (1st century B.C.-1st century A.D.?)
Pompeius
Lucilius
Nikarchos
Paulus Silentiarius (6th century A.D.)
Lucretius (98-c.55 B.C.)
Catullus (c.84-c.54 B.C.)
Horace (65-8 B.C.)
Virgil (70-19 B.C.)
Livy (59 B.C.-A.D.17)
Propertius (c.50 B.C.-after 16 B.C.)
Ovid (43 B.C.-A.D. 17)
Tacitus (A.D. 56/7after 117)
Petronius Arbiter (?-A.D. 65)
Juvenal (55?-138?)
Marcus Aurelius (121-180; Emperor, 161-180)
Aurelius Augustinus (St Augustine (354-530)
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Index

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