A collection of nearly sixty fables from Aesop, including such familiar ones as The Grasshopper and the Ants, The North Wind and the Sun, Androcles and the Lion, The Troublesome Dog, and The Fox and the Stork.

Hesiod was one of the first great Greek poets, living during the 8th Century BCE: the same time-period as Homer. His two classics are The Theogony and Works, and Days. The Theogony is, an essential work of its time. It is one of the first examples of a collection of organized, well put-together stories regarding Greek Mythology. Hesiod gives biographies of the gods and goddesses in it. Theogony functioned as an all-encompassing book on religious matters...

Contains three of Sophocles' most famous tragedies, with an introduction, textual notes, a chronology, and explanatory notes.