No reader can well do without a good classical dictionary. The following are recommended as the best—
———— _Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities_.
Curtius: _History of Greece_ (5 vols.); translated from the German, by A. W. Ward.
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Chapman’s translation is the best. Of the later versions, that of Lord Derby is preferable.
Butcher and Lang’s prose translation of the Odyssey.
Collins: The Iliad and the Odyssey (two volumes of “Ancient Classics for English Readers”).
De Quincey: Homer and the Homeridæ (essay in “Literary Criticism”).
Fénelon: TELEMACHUS (translated by Hawkesworth).
Goethe: Iphigenia in Tauris (drama, Swanwick’s translation).
The student of this period is referred also to Dr. Schliemann’s works: Ilios, Troja, and Mykenai.
Ebers: Uarda (romance, descriptive of Egyptian life and manners fourteen centuries before Christ).
———— The Daughter of an Egyptian King (five centuries before Christ).
Bulwer: Pausanias the Spartan (romance, 475 B.C.).
Robert Browning: Pheidippides (poem in “Dramatic Idyls”).
Lloyd: The Age of Pericles (fifth century before Christ).
Landor: Pericles and Aspasia (in “Imaginary Conversations”).
Mrs. L. M. Child: Philothea (romance of the time of Pericles).
Abbott: THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
Butcher: Demosthenes (Classical Writers).
Greenough: Apelles and his Contemporaries (a romance of the time of Alexander).
Schlegel: History of Dramatic Literature (first fourteen chapters).
Church: STORIES FROM THE GREEK TRAGEDIANS.
Mrs. Browning: Prometheus Bound (an English version of the great tragedy).
De Quincey: The Antigone of Sophocles (essay in “Literary Criticism”).
Froude: Sea Studies (essay in “Short Studies on Great Subjects”). Collins: Aristophanes (Ancient Classics).
De Quincey: Theory of Greek Tragedy (essay in “Literary Criticism”).
Brodribb: Demosthenes (Ancient Classics).
Jowett: The Dialogues of Plato (4 vols.).
Plutarch: On the Dæmon of Socrates (essay in the “Morals”).
For a study of social life and manners in Greece, read or refer to the following—
Becker: Charicles (romance, with copious notes and excursuses).
Guhl and Koner: Life of the Greeks and Romans.
Draper: History of the Intellectual Development of Europe (vol. i.).