The Roman poet Lucretius, who lived in the first century BC, composed an epic poem, De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), whose avowed purpose was to change the way people lived their lives, enab
This is an introduction to Euripides' "Cyclops", the only example of satyric drama to have survived complete into the modern world. The work gives an historical and analytical accoun
This completely new edition reproduces the original unexpurgated'Schauspiel', and provides and Introdution and Notes fully geared tothe needs of modern students.
This volume offers a selection (about a third of the whole) from Xenophon's Oeconomicus, his work about management of the ancient, relatively well-to-do household and estate. It probably reflects the
Brubaker (Byzantine art, U. of Birmingham, the UK), who has published extensively on Byzantine art, has written an engaging introductory text that gives a full account of the complex phenomenon of Byz
This well established scholarly edition was first published in 1965, seven years after publication of the papyrus containing the text. It includes introductory essays on scenery, staging, setting, act
The Sixth Book of Herodotus covers the history of Greece in the first decade of the 5th century B.C., including such momentous events as the Ionian Revolt and the Marathon campaign. This commentary, a
Modern students' lack of formal training in the grammar even of their own language leads to an impatience with the jargon and rules of syntax in their study of the ancient inflected languages. This co
The surviving short mimes of Hero(n)das share much of their aims and background with the Alexandrian poetry of the first half of the third century BC, especially that of Callimachus and Theocritus. Th
This is an edition of an important early work by a writer who has since become a leading Latin-American author and a figure in Peruvian politics. It provides a picture of the hedonistic and selfish li
Nero's suicide in AD 68 was followed by a disastrous civil war that left the empire in a parlous state and saw the demise, in quick succession, of another three emperors (Galba, Otho and Vitellius). N
Book III of Caesar's "de Bello Civili" is arguably the most interesting he ever wrote, containing as it does the two major campaigns of Dyrrachium and of Pharsalus - Caesar's titanic
R.C. Jebb's editions of Sophocles' plays appeared in the last years of the 19th century. They are distinguished by the author's sensitive, literary and dramatic interpretations and his neat translatio
Ctesias: On India is one of the first western works on India, written in the fifth century BC. This full English translation provides a fascinating account of what was, at the time, the very edge of t
This Spanish text is useful for teaching Peruvian, Latin American literature and cultural history at university level. It could also be read at upper sixth-form level as the plot is uncomplicated and
The De Rerum Natura of Lucretius (?97-55 BC) is at first sight something of an oddity; a scientific treatise dealing with atomic physics, human biology and the nature of the cosmos, it is at the same
First published by Macmillan in 1910 and frequently reprinted thereafter, this selection includes the Latin text of Letters 5, 7, 11, 12, 15, 18, 21, 27, 28, 33, 40, 43, 44, 47, 51, 53-57, 63, 76-80,
The development of key methodologies for the study of battlefields in the USA in the 1980s inspired a generation of British and European archaeologists to turn their attention to sites in their own co
This useful edition of Suetonius' Life of Augustus, one of twelve imperial biographies contained in that author's De vita Caesarum, was first published by Oxford University Press in 1927. It includes
