Hellenistic Greek texts from LCL?

Gary S. Shogren gshogren at sol.racsa.co.cr
Tue Dec 1 14:10:19 EST 1998


Hi Joe,

>Anyone have a reference, or a list of authors' writing dates, or even a 
>note including authors from the period they could send me private?

I have found the TLG users' guide a nice resource for dating, general 
content, and available texts:

_Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Canon of Greek Authors and Works_ by Luci 
Berkowitz, Karl A. Squitier (3d edition; Oxford Univ Press, 1990). 
Amazon.com tells me that THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE. The 
publisher is out of stock. I don't have the price, but remember thinking 
that it wasn't as expensive as I'd expected for a reference volume - plus, 
they gave me either a free copy or a nice professor's discount.

>I am open to suggestions of particular works that would be worth reading. 
> Are there other publishings that print Greek/English side-by-side other >than Loeb Classic Library that I should be exploring?

I don't read as much as I'd like, but...I find Aeschylus' plays very 
pleasing from both linguistic and a NT background perspectives. "Prometheus 
Bound," for example, contains a couple of references to Prometheus "kicking 
against the goads" when he resists Zeus. Plus, the general picture of the 
Greek pantheon is worth looking into.

Plutarch's _Lives_ is (are?) good for the same reasons, as are the works 
that record Epictetus (early 2d century). All 3 authors are availabe in 
Loeb, and I believe through Perseus. Epictetus is definitely the easiest 
read of the 3.

Gary Shogren



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