CLASSICS (c. 700 B.C.-1700)
Reading edition
Note: All classics below are listed in their original historical order.
c Homer, The Iliad. (P). Vs. translations & editions.
c Pindar, Odes (esp. Ode to Theoxenos). Vs. translations & editions.
c Theognis, Elegies to Kurnos (P) in “Elegy and Iambus”, Loeb Library #258 and other translations/editions.
b * Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae (D)
d/e Aristophanes, The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; The Knights; Lysistrata; Ecclesiazusae. (all D). Vs. translations & editions including “Eleven Comedies of Aristophanes”, NY, Liveright, 1930 et seq. (Black and Gold Library).
c Theocritus, Idylls (P) (esp. 5, 7, 12, 13, 23, 29, 30). Loeb Lib. #28 et al.
b c d e ** Caius V. Catullus, Carmina (P) (esp. 15, 16, 21, 24, 25, 29, 33, 48, 56, 57, 80, 81, 99, 100, 106, 112). Vs. translations & editions with variant degrees of expurgation & bowdlerization. Translation by Sir Richard Burton & Leonard C. Smithers, published in several subscribers’ editions London and New York, offers most complete edition.
a * Albius Tibullus, Elegies (P) (esp. 4, 8, 9). Loeb Library #6 et al.
c Publius Vergil(ius), Eclogues (esp. 2: Corydon). (P). Vs. editions.
a *** Caius Petronius, Satyricon. Vs. translations, best by Oscar Wilde or Firebaugh in various editions.
c Publius P. Statius, The Tresses of Flavius Earinus in “Silvae”. (P) Loeb Library #206, et al.
a/e ** Marcus V. Martial(is), Epigrams. Various translations & editions, complete only in Loeb Library #94 & 95 (with Latin & Italian fluency or dictionary required for some incompletely translated epigrams).
d/e Lucian, Dialogues (esp. Dialogues of the Gods; Dialogues of the Courtesans). Vs. translations and editions.
d Lucian, True History. (SN). Vs. translations including Loeb Library #14.
d Lucius Apuleius, The Golden Ass. Vs. translations & editions.
d Greek Anthology (P). Vs. translations & editions. (see also P, 1918; the Musa Puerilis does not contain quite all relevant verses).
d Longus, Daphnis and Chloe. (SN). Vs. editions including Anchor A21 (PC)
b ** Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale. (SN). Anchor A21 (PC) et al.
c Christopher Marlowe, Edward II (D). London, c. 1592.
d Christopher Marlowe, Dido (D)
a/c Richard Barnfield, The Affectionate Shepherd (P). London, 1594.
a/c ** Richard Barnfield, Sonnets (esp. 4, 8, 19). London, 1595. Vs. scarce reprints including Grossart (ed.), London, 1876; English Scholar’s Library, London, 1882; Fortune Press, London, 1936. Also, small portion in Ioläus (see OTP, 1902).
c * William Shakespeare, Sonnets (esp. 18, 20, 104, 108). London, 1609.
c William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (d).
a *** John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Sodom (D). “Antwerp”, 1684. Reprinted in Kryptadia v. IX, Paris, 1905 & Heilbronn, 1912; Paris, Olympia, ’57 (PC)
a John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Poems on Several Occasions. “Antwerp”, 1684. Reprinted by Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1950.
b * Sir John Vanbrugh, The Relapse (D). London, 1696. Many editions.