Greek Orators III: Isocrates

1990 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Usher
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Greek Text ◽  
Great Care ◽  
The Ideal

Two contrasting works, both in style and content, illustrate the versatility of Isocrates, the most accomplished writer of polished periodic Greek prose. The Panegyricus is a patriotic work of Athenian propaganda composed with great care and also intended to advertise his skills to potential pupils at his school for leading statesmen. In it he argues the case for Athenian leadership of a pan-Hellenic expedition against Persia, representing it as a cultural as well as a military crusade. In To Nicocles, he offers advice to one of his pupils, the newly crowned king of Cyprus, on how to rule acceptably to his people and tolerably to himself. From it emerges a portrait of the ideal Hellenistic monarch. Less elaborately written than the Panegyricus, it displays its author's ability to write with clarity and economy. Greek text with parallel English translation.

Sophocles: Ajax

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. F. Garvie
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Simple Solution ◽  
Greek Text ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Easy Answer ◽  
In The Beginning

Ajax, perhaps the earliest surviving tragedy of Sophocles, presents the downfall and disgrace of a great hero whose suicide leads to his rehabilitation through the enlightened magnanimity of one of his enemies. This edition attempts to show that Sophocles offers no easy answer to the question of why Ajax falls, and no simple solution to the problem of how we ought to live so as to avoid tragedy in our own lives. The introductory chapter focuses on Ajax, as one of the major characters in Homer's Iliadand the only hero in the story that never received direct help from a god. It looks into the Odyssey, which provides the earliest reference of Sophocles being concerned with Ajax. The next chapter provides the original text of Sophocles's play about Ajax. It talks about how the play began with the death of Achilles and Ajax's desire to be rewarded with his armor. It also mentions Ajax's shame and intention of suicide after killing Agamemnon and Menelaus when they gave Achilles's armor to Oddyseus. The chapter discusses the ending of the play in which Odysseus insisted that Ajax should be buried properly. The final chapter gives the commentary for the play. It talks about how Sophocles began his plays with dialogue in order to provide the audience with information about the story. It also mentions the introduction of Odysseus and reveal of Athena as the goddess in the beginning of the play. This chapter analyses the relationships among Ajax, Odysseus, and Athena. The book presents Greek text with facing-page English translation, introduction and extensive commentary.

Pseudo-Skylax's Periplous

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Black Sea ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Rhetorical Theory ◽  
Greek Text ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Gathering Data

The text of the Periplous or ‘circumnavigation’ that survives under the name of Skylax of Karyanda is in fact by an unknown author of the 4th century BC. It describes the coasts of the Mediterranean and Black Sea, naming hundreds of towns with geographical features such as rivers, harbours and mountains. But, argues Graham Shipley, it is not the record of a voyage or a navigational handbook for sailors. It is, rather, the first work of Greek theoretical geography, written in Athens at a time of intellectual ferment and intense speculation about the nature and dimensions of the inhabited world. While other scientists were gathering data about natural science and political systems or making rapid advances in philosophy, rhetorical theory, and cosmology, the unknown author collected data about the structure of the lands bordering the seas known to the Greeks, and compiled sailing distances and times along well-frequented routes. His aim was probably nothing less ambitious than to demonstrate the size of the inhabited world of the Greeks. This is the first full edition of the Periplous for over 150 years, and includes a newly revised Greek text and specially produced maps along with the first complete English translation. In this fully reset second edition, the introduction is expanded to include a section on the late-antique geographer Markianos, and updates incorporated into both the Introduction and Commentary.

The Atlantis Story: Greek Text and Commentary (Plato Timaeus 17a–27b, Critias)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Gill
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Complete List ◽  
Greek Text

This provides a complete list of Greek words found in the two Platonic texts, Timaeus 17a-27b, Critias, arranged alphabetically, along with an English translation of each word. Readers who do not understand any of the words in the Greek texts can thus look them up easily in the Vocabulary. The meaning allocated to each term matches those provided in the Translation and the Commentary. The inclusion of the Vocabulary is especially helpful for students using the book as a means of developing their knowledge of Greek.

scholarly journals De Beneficentia: A Homily on Social Action attributed to Basil of Caesarea

2012 ◽  
Vol 66 (5) ◽  
pp. 457-481
Author(s):  
Susan R. Holman ◽  
Caroline Macé ◽  
Brian J. Matz
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Social Action ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Latin Translation ◽  
Greek Text ◽  
Manuscript Dating ◽  
Manuscript Text

Abstract This paper introduces an anonymous work attributed to Basil of Caesarea entitled, De beneficentia, or “On beneficence.” The text is known from one manuscript dating to the thirteenth or fourteenth century, Berlin, Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, Phillipps 1467 (gr. 63), a collection of genuine and pseudonymous Basilian homilies. Although pseudonymous and extant (as far as we can determine) only in this sole manuscript, in some quoted fragments from the ninth and twelfth centuries, and in a sixteenth-century Latin translation, De beneficentia, shares a number of characteristics common to social homilies preached in the late fourth and early fifth centuries. This paper discusses the Berlin manuscript text in the context of the known fragments, other spurious, dubious, or pseudonymous homilies attributed to Basil, and its attributed relationship to social preaching in Christian late antiquity, and offers a new edition of the Greek text with its first English translation.

scholarly journals Lawh-i-Tibb (Tablet to the Physician)

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 67-82
Author(s):  
Misagh Ziaei
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Practice Of Medicine ◽  
Popular Interest ◽  
The Ideal

The Lawh-i-Tibb is a well-known, oft-referenced tablet by Bahá’u’lláh and one of the few explicitly related to medicine and healing. While the health maxims contained in it are often the focus of popular interest, relatively little attention has been paid to other aspects of the tablet. Complicating the study of this important work is the lack of an authorized English translation. This paper, drawing on provisional translations, focuses on the tablet’s historical context, its paradigms for the study and practice of medicine, its description of the ideal characteristics of a physician, and its foreshadowing of the evolution of medical science.

Oedipus Tyrannus

2020 ◽  
pp. 59-162
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Greek Text

The Greek text is accompanied by a full apparatus criticus at the foot of each page and also a facing English translation. The translation is as literal as possible, while still retaining a reasonable fluency. Where the translation is further from the Greek, a literal rendering is including in the Commentary for students who aim to understand the Greek. Some help with the Greek itself is also included.

Appian: Wars of the Romans in Iberia

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Roman History ◽  
Greek Text ◽  
The Third ◽  
Scipio Africanus ◽  
Imperial Expansion ◽  
History Of ◽  
Continuous Source

Appian wrote his Roman history in the second century AD as a series of books arranged geographically to chronicle the rise of the Roman Empire. His Iberike, of which this is the first translation with historical commentary in English, deals with the Romans' wars in the Iberian peninsula from the third to the first centuries BC. It is the only continuous source for much of the history of this crucial period in one of the earliest regions of Rome's imperial expansion, and so fills in the gap made by the loss of Livy's later books. He describes the major campaigns of the conquest from the defeat of the Carthaginians by Scipio Africanus, the wars against the Celtiberians, the war against the Lusitanians under Viriathus and the siege of Numantia. The value of the text is not merely as a chronicle of otherwise obscure events, Appian was an historian who deserves to be studied in his own right. This scholarly edition presents the Greek text with facing-page English translation, accompanied by an introduction, historical commentary and copious notes.

Aristotle: On Sleep and Dreams

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Gallop
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Psychology ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Greek Text ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
Contemporary Perspective

This work is designed to make Aristotle's three essays on sleep and dreams (De Somno et Vigilia, De Insomniis and De Divinatione per Somnum) accessible in translation to modern readers, and to provide a commentary with a contemporary perspective. It considers Aristotle's theory of dreams in historical context, especially in relation to Plato. It also discusses neo-Freudian interpretations of Aristotle and contemporary experimental psychology of dreaming. Aristotle's account of dreaming as a function of the imagination is examined from a philosophical perspective. The edition presents the Greek text, with facing-page English translation, introduction, notes and commentary.

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