PLATO. Trial and Death of Socrates, translated by F. J. Church.
ARISTOTLE. Politics, translated by Benjamin Jowett and also by J. E. C. Welldon.
HERODOTUS. Translated by G. C. Macaulay.
THUCYDIDES. Translated by Benjamin Jowett.
XENOPHON. Translated by H. G. Dakyns.
PLUTARCH. Translated by Dryden, revised by A. H. Clough.
DEMOSTHENES. Public Orations, translated by A. W. Pickard-Cambridge.
The Claim of Antiquity, an excellent pamphlet published by the Oxford University Press, gives a much fuller and more complete list of books and translations for those who would like further suggestions.
III. Greek Sculpture and Architecture
Not every one can go to Greece or even to Sicily, but most museums have good collections of casts and models. Greek sculpture is not all found in one place, but scattered through the museums of the world. Those who can go to London, Paris, Rome and Naples, if nowhere else, can get first-hand knowledge of some of the greatest things the Greeks produced. For the sculptures from the Parthenon are in the British Museum; most beautiful things are in the Museo delle Terme in Rome (to see the other half of the Throne of Aphrodite one must go to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts), and Sophocles is in the Museum of the Lateran. From Naples one can go to Paestum, once the Greek colony of Poseidonia, famous in ancient times for its roses, and see the Temple of Poseidon. It has never been restored, and is one of the best preserved Greek temples to be seen anywhere out of Attica. There it stands, as it has stood for over two thousand years, looking out towards the sea, solitary, now, and desolate, yet in its loneliness most beautiful.