Fagle’s Translation of the Aeneid

Click here for the Aenid: virgil – aeneid [trans. fagles] (penguin 2006) (1)

A source of information regarding Pre-Socrates

National Geographic, issue November 1994, vol. 186, no.5 has a great article on the early Greek trading cities of southern Italy and Sicily. It is called, “When the Greeks went west,” by Rick Gore.

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Here is a link to information regarding eastern influences on the Pre-Socratics: “Early Greek Philosophy and the Orient” by Martin West.

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Here is a source of a typically Nietzschian perspective on the Pre-Socratics: “Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks” by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Presocratic Philosophers” by G.S. Kirk

The Scope of the Inquiring Mind

This is a link to the obituary of controversial scholar who would be very pleased by assumptions under which we are examining Greek culture in the Inquiring Mind.

Here is the link from the New York Times: Martin Bernal, ‘Black Athena’ Scholar

Iliad

Here is the text for the Iliad, please patient as it may take some time to load as it is a very large .pdf.

Here is a link to an article from the Paris Review with Robert Fagles: The Art of Translation No. 2.

Gilgamesh

Here is the link to the text for Gilgamesh.

Here is a link to great recent article, June 2013, from Reed magazine: Triumph of Gilgamesh.

Also, here are some great resources for that period:

Sumerian Mythology
History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History
by Samuel Noah Kramer

Before Philosophy: The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man
Kingship and the Gods: A Study of Ancient Near Eastern Religion as the Integration of Society and Nature
by Henri Frankfort

Also, if you put “Gilgamesh” in the search bar of this website — there is a wealth of knowledge here:
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We also recommend, Epic of Gilgamesh, trans. Andrew George, 2003. Hugh has a copy of it and you are welcome to borrow it if you are interested. It is a verse translation with  additional textual material and some alternative readings from other sources of the Epic (Hittite and Ugaritic).