Masterpieces of Greek Literature: Homer: Tyrtaeus: Archilochus: Callistratus: Alcaeus: Sappho: Anacreon: Pindar: Aeschylus: Sophocles: Euripides Aristophanes: Herodotus: Thucydides: Xenophon: Plato: Theocritus: Lucian, with Biographical Sketches and NotesJohn Henry Wright Houghton, Mifflin, 1902 - 456 Seiten |
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Admetos Aeschines Aeschylus Alkestis Antigone ANTISTROPHE Athenians Athens Bacchus battle bear begin the woodland behold birds brother called Chaerecrates Charon Chorus corpse Creon Crito dead dear death deed Demosthenes didst doom dost thou doth earth Euelpides Euripides evil eyes fate father fear fire friends give gods Greece Greek grief Guard Hades Haemon hand hate hath hear heart Hector Hephaestus Heracles Hercules Hermes Hiero honor Hoopoe Ismene king koash land laws live look Messenger mind mortal mother Muses Neptune never nought o'er Oceanus Peisthetairus Persian poet poetry Polyneices praise Praxinoë Prometheus round shalt slain Socrates Sophocles sorrow soul spake speak STROPHE suffer sweet Maids Syracusans tears Teiresias tell Thebes thee Thessaly thine things thou art thou hast thought Timon translation Triballian true turn wife woodland song words Zeus
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Seite 409 - You have shown me a strange image, and they are strange prisoners. Like ourselves, I replied; and they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the caver True, he said; how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?
Seite 400 - Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt? The debt shall be paid, said Crito; is there anything else?
Seite 328 - It is true that we are called a democracy, for the administration is in the hands of the many and not of the few.
Seite 400 - ... and the man who gave him the poison now and then looked at his feet and legs; and after a while he pressed his foot hard and asked him if he could feel; and he said, No; and then his leg, and so upwards and upwards, and showed us that he was cold and stiff. And he felt them himself, and said: When the poison reaches the heart, that will be the end.
Seite 397 - Now the hour of sunset was near, for a good deal of time had passed while he was within. When he came out, he sat down with us again after his bath, but not much was said. Soon the jailer, who was the servant of the Eleven, entered and stood by him, saying: "To you, Socrates, whom I know to be the noblest and gentlest and best of all who ever came to this place, I will not impute the angry feelings of other men, who rage and swear at me, when, in obedience to the authorities, I bid them drink the...
Seite 409 - And now look again, and see what will naturally follow if the prisoners are released and disabused of their error. At first, when any one of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows...
Seite 408 - Behold ! human beings living in an underground den, which has a mouth open toward the light and reaching all along the den ; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads.
Seite 299 - During the winter, the sun is driven out of his usual course by the storms, and removes to the upper parts of Libya. This is the whole secret in the fewest possible words ; for it stands to reason that the country to which the Sun-god approaches the nearest, and which he passes most directly over, will be scantest of water, and that there the streams which feed the rivers will shrink the most. 25. To explain, however, more at length, the case is this. The sun, in his passage across the upper parts...
Seite 332 - Such is the city for whose sake these men nobly fought and died: they could not bear the thought that she might be taken from them ; and every one of us who survive should gladly toil on her behalf.
Seite 416 - ... must continue to ascend until they arrive at the good; but when they have ascended and seen enough we must not allow them to do as they do now. What do you mean? I mean that they remain in the upper world: but this must not be allowed; they must be made to descend again among the prisoners in the den, and partake of their labours and honours, whether they are worth having or not.