The humanist tradition in world literature;: An anthology of masterpieces from Gilgamesh to The divine comedy

A critical anthology of literary masterpieces from Gilgamesh to the Divine Comedy, this book surveys the history of Western thought from the ancient Near East to late Medieval Europe. Besides generous excerpts from the epics of Homer and Virgil and the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, it also features the complete texts of seven Greek plays, including Sophocles’ seldom-anthologized Philoctetes and Aristophanes’ ribald comedy, the Lysistrata.