The Great Ideas

Happiness

REFERENCES
to The Great Books

Topic 6. The happiness of men in relation to the gods or the after-life

Volume GBWW [I]:
AUTHOR
Title Author's Divisions GBWW [I] page

4:
HOMER
Iliad, BK XV [47-77] 104c-d; BK XVI [843-861] 121c-d
5:
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon [351-474] 55d-57b
Eumenides 81a-91d
SOPHOCLES
Oedipus the King [1186-1221] 110b-c; [1524-1530] 113c
Antigone [582-624] 136b-c; [1348-1353] 142d
Trachiniae [121-140] 171b
Philoctetes [1314-1347] 193d-194a
EURIPIDES
Helen [1687-1692] 314c
Andromache [91-102] 316a; [1284-1288] 326c
Bacchantes [878-911] 347b-c
Hecuba [952-961] 360d-361a
Iphigenia at Aulis [16-33] 425b
6:
HERODOTUS
History, BK I, 6c-10a esp 6c-8a, 9c-10a; 20b-21a; BK II, 77a-b; BK III, 98b-99a
7:
PLATO
Apology, 211c-d
Phaedo, 223a-225c; 249c-250b
Republic, BK VII, 401a-b; BK X, 437c-438c
Laws, BK II, 658c-d; BK V, 689c
9:
ARISTOTLE
Ethics, BK I, CH 10-11 345c-347a; BK VII, CH 14 [1154b20-30] 406c; BK X, CH 7 431d-432c esp [1177b16-1178a8] 432b-c; CH 8 [1178b8-32] 433b-c
12:
LUCRETIUS
Nature of Things, BK I [62-135] 1d-2d; BK III [1-93] 30a-31b; [978-1023] 42d-43b; BK V [1161-1240] 76b-77b. BK VI [43-79] 80d-81b
EPICTETUS
Discourses, BK IV, CH I 213a-223d
AURELIUS
Meditations, BK II, SECT II 258a-b
13:
VIRGIL
Aeneid, BK VI [264-678] 218a-229a; [724-751] 230b-231a
15:
TACITUS
Annals, BK VI, 91b-d
Histories, BK i, 190a
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AUGUSTINE
Confessions, BK VI, par 26 42d, 43a

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