Part 4

ARISTOTLE--(Born in 384 B.C., died in 322.)

I What Things are Pleasant. (From Book I of the "Rhetoric." Translated by Buckley)

II The Life Most Desirable. (From Book VII of the "Politics." Translated by Walford)

III Ideal Husbands and Wives. (From Book I of the "Economics." Translated by Walford)

IV Happiness as an End of Human Action. (From Book X of the "Nicomachean Ethics." Translated by Browne)

POLYBIUS--(Born in 204 B.C., died about 125.)

I The Battle of Cannae. (From Book IV of the "Histories." Translated by Shuckburgh)

II Hannibal's Advance on Rome. (From Book IX of the "Histories." Translated by Shuckburgh)

III The Defense of Syracuse by Archimedes. (From Book VIII of the "Histories." Translated by Shuckburgh)

PLUTARCH--(Born about 46 A.D., died in 125.)

I Demosthenes and Cicero Compared. (From the "Lives." Translated by Sir Thomas North)

II The Assassination of Caesar. (From the "Lives." Translated by North)

III Cleopatra's Barge. (From the "Life of Mark Antony." Translated by North)

IV The Death of Antony and Cleopatra. (From the "Life of Mark Antony." Translated by North)

EPICTETUS--(Born about the middle of the first century.)

I Of Freedom. (From the "Discourses." Translated by Thomas Wentworth Higginson)

II Of Friendship. (From the "Discourses." Translated by Higginson)

III The Philosopher and the Crowd. (From the "Discourses." Translated by Higginson)

LUCIAN--(Born about 120 A.D., died about 200.)

I A Descent to the Unknown. (From "Menippus." Translated by H. W. and F. G. Fowler)

II Among the Philosophers. (From the "Fisher: A Resurrection Piece." Translated by H. W. and F. G. Fowler)

III Of Liars and Lying. (From the "Liar." Translated by H. W. and F. G. Fowler)

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GREECE

484 B.C.--200 A.D.

HERODOTUS

Born in Asia Minor, probably in 484 B.C.; died in Italy, probably in 424; commonly called the "Father of History"; assisted in the expulsion of the tyrant Lygdamis from Halicarnassus; traveled in Persia, Egypt, and Greece; lived afterward in Samos and Athens, settling in Thurii, Italy, about 444 B.C.; his history of the Persian invasion of Greece, extending to 479 B.C., was first printed in Greek by Aldus Manutius in 1502, but a Latin version had appeared in 1474.

SOLON'S WORDS OF WISDOM TO CROESUS