The New Lifetime Reading Plan

Further reading: For Chinese philosophy in general, see Fung Yu-lan, A History of Chinese Philosophy, tr. Derk Bodde (2 vols.), and Benjamin I. Schwartz, The World of Thought in Ancient China. For a biography of Confucius, see H.G. CreePs Confucius: The Man and the Myth (also titled Confucius and the Chinese Way). See also: Herbert Fingarette, Confucius: The Secular as Sacred; David T. Hall and Roger Ames, Thinking Through Confucius.

Aeschylus—The Complete Greek Tragedies, ed. David Grene and Richmond Lattimore (4 vols., U. of Chicago Press), contains good modern versions of ali the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. For Aeschylus only, see Aeschylus One. Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, tr. and introd. by Richmond Lattimore (U. of Chicago Press); Aeschylus Two. Four Tragedies: Prometheus Bound, Seven against Thebes, The Persians_y The Suppliant Maidens, tr. David Grene and Seth G. Benardete (U. of Chicago Press); The Oresteia, tr. Robert Lowell (Farrar, Straus).

Further reading: H.D.F. Kitto, Greek Tragedy; Bernhard Zimmerman, Greek Tragedy: An Introduction; Christian Meier, The Political Art of Greek Tragedy. Surveys of Greek literature: Moses Hadas, A History of Greek Literature (Columbia U. Press); Albin Lesky, History of Greek Literature (Crowell); Gilbert Murray, The Literature of Ancient Greece (Phoenix).

Sophocles—Highly recommended: Oedipus Trilogy, tr. Stephen Spender (Random); The Oedipus Cycle of Sophocles, tr. Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald (Harcourt). Other good editions: Complete Plays, ed. Moses Hadas (Bantam); Sophocles One (incl. Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone) and Sophocles Two (incl. Ajax, The Women ofTrachis, Electra, Philoctetes) (U. of Chicago Press).

Further reading: C.M. Bowra, Sophoclean Tragedy; Lowell Edmunds, Oedipus: The Ancient Legend and its Later Analogues.

Euripides—Bantam publishes Ten Plays of Euripides, tr. Moses Hadas and John H. McLean. University of Chicago Press publishes ali the plays in five volumes in excellent translations. An interesting version of The Trojan Women is the adaptation by Jean-Paul Sartre (Random). Also interesting are the translations of Robert Meagher: Bakkhai and Hakabe (both Bolchazy-Carducci) and Helen (U. of Massachusetts Press). The translations by the great scholar Gilbert Murray (which often can be found in libraries and bookstores) are frequently beautiful in a turn-of-the-century man- ner, but the more modern versions are probably more faithful to the original.

Further reading: Gilbert Murray, Euripides and His Age; G.M.A. Grube, The Drama of Euripides; Ann N. Michelini, Euripides and the Tragic Tradition.

Herodotus—The Histories is sometimes titled The Persian Wars. George Rawlinson's classic but rather Victorian translation is findable in The Greek Historiam (2 vols., Random), ed. F.R.B. Godolphin; and also, introduced by Godolphin, in Modern Library. More modern and readable translations: Aubrey de Selincourt (Penguin); and especially David Grene (U. of Chicago Press)

Further reading: J.B. Bury's The Ancient Greek Historians cov- ers other Greek historians as well as Herodotus and Thucydides and is a classic in its field. See also John L. Myres, Herodotus: Father of History.