Words of Wisdom from Ancient Greece

Translated by Alexander Zaphiriou
Illustrated by Panagiotis Stavropoulos

BILINGUAL EDITION

Words of Wisdom from Ancient Greece gathers the best of a thousand years of philosophy, history and literature, in a compilation of writing spanning from 800 BC to 200 AD. With selections from the five major schools of Greek thought—the Platonists, the Aristotelians, the Stoics, the Epicureans, and the Skeptics—this survey of ancient wisdom offers guidance for a life well lived from luminaries of Greece’s legendary past.

AESCHYLUS – AESOP
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
ANAXAGORAS – ANTISTHENES
ARISTOTLE – ARISTOPHANES
BIAS OF PRIENE
CHILON OF SPARTA
CLEOBULUS OF LINDOS
DEMOCRITUS – DEMOSTHENES
DIOGENES – EPICURUS
EPICTETUS – EURIPIDES
HERACLITUS – HESIOD
HIPPOCRATES – HOMER
ISOCRATES – MENANDER
PERIANDER – PINDAR
PITTACUS OF MYTILENE
PLATO – PLUTARCH
PROTAGORAS – PYTHAGORAS
SOCRATES – SOLON – SOPHOCLES
THALES OF MILETUS
THEOCRITUS – THUCYDIDES XENOPHON – ZENO OF CITIUM