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BIBLIOGRAPHY
In addition to the titles suggested in the Plan, this Bibliography selec- tively lists other important works, if any, by the author, and gives some suggestions for further reading about the authors and their works. Many of the titнes have been published in moderate-priced paperback editions, though some are available only in hardcover.
Publishing is a very volatile industry. Some long-established paperback series are no longer active; others may have been discontinued by the time this book reaches you. Publishing firms not infrequently change names or disappear. At least some of these books will be out of print at any given time. For these reasons, in this Bibliography (unlike those in earlier editions of the Plan) we do not try systematically to list in-print paperback editions of the recommended books. In the frequent cases where an authors works are widely available in standard editions, we simply say that. In other cases we list editions because they contain superior texts, or especially good introductions and criticai apparatus, or are particularly good translations of works written in languages other than English.
In any case, innovations of the information age have made it easier for you to find these books on your own. Most libraries and bookstores will have copies of the current Books in Print and Paperback Books in Print, both published (each in several volumes) annually by R.R. Bowker Co.; you can consult these to locate good and reasonably priced editions of the books listed in the Plan. Most bookstores and libraries also have on-line access to one or another database (including computerized ver- sions of Books in Print and Paperback Books in Print), which they will happily use to assist you in finding books. If a book or an edition that you are looking for is out of print, try to find a copy in your local library, or ask the library to obtain one on interlibrary loan. (Computer databases and the Internet have widened and simplified the process of interlibrary loans; even very small libraries are now often part of a lending network.) We also encourage you to look for copies of these books at secondhand bookstores, where you will have both the pleasure of browsing through shelves of interesting books and the satisfaction of buying copies of excellent books at reasonable prices.
The lists of books suggested for additional reading in most cases are both brief and basic. To save space, we list these books only by author and title. Again, new information technology makes it easier for you to go further on your own: Many school and public libraries, and ali large research- oriented libraries, have entered their holdings into database programs, and often have access via the Internet to other libraries' catalogues as well. It is a simple matter (and the librarians will be happy to help you) to search these databases by subject—for example, "Gilgamesh"—and compile a bibliography far larger and more complete than anything we could hope to provide here. Remember also that the Encyclopaedia Britannica remains an excellent and convenient source of sound biographical and background information on virtually ali of the authors listed in The New Lifetime Reading Plan.
Here, then, are our suggestions, to be considered as nothing more than a way to help you get started.
н. The Epic of Gilgamesh—Translations by R. Campbell Thompson (Clarendon); N.K. Sandars (Penguin); E.A. Speiser (Princeton U. Press); John Gardner and John Maier (Vintage); Maureen Kovacs (Stanford U. Press); Danny P. Jackson (Bolchazy-Carducci); David Ferry (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
Further reading: C. W. Ceram, Gods, Graves and Scholars: The Story of Archaeology; A. Leo Oppenheim, Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization; Jeffrey Tigay, The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic; Stephanie Dalley, Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others.
2. Homer, The Iliad—The translations of Richmond Lattimore (Phoenix) and Robert Fitzgerald (Anchor) are excellent, as is the newer translation by Robert Fagels (Viking). Those by W.H. Rouse (Mentor) and E.V. Rieu (Penguin) are quite serviceable, the latter especially in the updated version published in 1991 by Penguin.
Further reading: Jasper Griffin, Homer; Michael Silk, Homer: The Iliad; Mark Edwards, Homer Poet of the Iliad.
A comprehensive reference volume covering both Greece and Rome is Paul Harvey, ed., Oxford Companion to Classical Literature. For mythology: Zimmerman, Dictionary of Classical Mythology; Edith Hamilton, Mythology; H.J. Rose, Gods and Heroes of the Greeks. A masterly general study of Greek culture: Werner Jaeger, Paideia.
Homer, The Odyssey—Versions by Richmond Lattimore (Harper Torchbooks); Robert Fitzgerald (Anchor); W.H. Rouse (Mentor), Robert Fagels (Viking). Avoid abridgements.
Further reading: M.I. Finley, The World of Ulysses; G.S. Kirk, Homer and the Epic.
Confucius—The standard translation is by Arthur Waley, The Analects of Confucius (Random House); equally good is that of D.C. Lau (Penguin). The translation by James Legge, in The Chinese Classics (5 vols., 1861-72, several reprint editions) is old but still much admired by scholars. The Original Analects, tr. E. Bruce Brooks (Columbia U. Press), gives a radically new interpretation.
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 Persiansy 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).