Mahaffy: History of Greek Literature.
Schlegel: History of Dramatic Literature (first fourteen chapters).
Church: Stories from the Greek Tragedians.
Copleston: Æschylus (Ancient Classics).
Mrs. Browning: Prometheus Bound (an English version of the great tragedy).
Bishop Milman: Agamemnon.
Collins: Sophocles (Ancient Classics).
De Quincey: The Antigone of Sophocles (essay in “Literary Criticism”).
Donne: Euripides (Ancient Classics).
Froude: Sea Studies (essay in “Short Studies on Great Subjects”). Collins: Aristophanes (Ancient Classics).
Mitchell: The Clouds of Aristophanes.
De Quincey: Theory of Greek Tragedy (essay in “Literary Criticism”).
Brodribb: Demosthenes (Ancient Classics).
Collins: Plato (Ancient Classics).
Jowett: The Dialogues of Plato (4 vols.).
The Phædo of Plato (Wisdom Series).
Plato: The Apology of Socrates.
A Day in Athens with Socrates.
Plutarch: On the Dæmon of Socrates (essay in the “Morals”).
Grant: Xenophon (Ancient Classics).
Collins: Thucydides (Ancient Classics).
Life and Manners.
For a study of social life and manners in Greece, read or refer to the following—
Becker: Charicles (romance, with copious notes and excursuses).
Mahaffy: Social Life in Greece.
—— Old Greek Life.
Guhl and Koner: Life of the Greeks and Romans.
Special Reference.
Draper: History of the Intellectual Development of Europe (vol. i.).
Clough: Plutarch’s Lives.
Kaufman: The Young Folks’ Plutarch.
White: Plutarch for Boys and Girls.
It is good exercise, good medicine, the reading of Plutarch’s books,—good for to-day as it was in times preceding ours, salutary for all times.—A. Bronson Alcott.
II. ROMAN HISTORY.
For purposes of reference the following books, already mentioned in the course of Greek History, are indispensable—
Anthon: Classical Dictionary.
Smith: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities.
Ginn & Heath: Classical Atlas.
Murray: Manual of Mythology.