This edition provides the commentary and student aids lacking in larger volumes on Homer's work. It contains a full Introduction designed to highlight the most important features of the text. There ar
For many today Spartacus is Kirk Douglas. The influence of Kubrick's film has been enormous, but Spartacus was famous before 1960. For hundreds of years he has been a byword for resistance, revolution
First published in 1867 and later revised, this grammar incorporates an account of morphology and accidence, a detailed and exemplified syntax and a final section on prosody (metrics). A Latin and Eng
Part of a four-unit course designed for post-beginners in Greek and other learners wishing to consolidate their reading skills. Particular attention is paid to idiomatic usage, word order and the use
The order of words in a Greek Sentence is much freer and less predictable than in most modern European languages. Dover explains and illustrates the principles which govern word order in Greek. He fi
Euripides and Dionysus is a brilliant and influential study of the god of Greek drama and the one surviving tragedy, Euripides' Bacchae, in which he appears. The play has been intensively discussed by
Part of the Advanced Language Series, this is a revised edition of "The Greek Dialects" published by ChicagoUniversity Press in 1955. Its virtues were comparativeclarity and conciseness on a subject t
This study presents a collection of the influential Greek philosophical texts which provide a broad cross-section of ancient Greek thought. Full notes on the translation and the philosophical content
In this accessible guide, Victoria Best explores the turbulent twentieth century in France through its literature, introducing the works that created fresh perspectives on the human condition in an ag
In a poem written in exile, Ovid pictures his latest book in conversation with his previous volumes, united in the bookcase containing his collected works back in Rome. One can imagine their dialogue
By common consent, the Argentinian Jorge Luis Borge (1899-1986) is one of the greatest writers to have emerged from Latin America. His finest work is Ficciones (Fictions, 1944), a collection of essay
This book contains Latin text, with translations and literary commentary, on seventeen poems by Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus and Ovid. The selection has been chosen to represent each author's qualit
This handbook contains a classified list, with English equivalents, of 1500 words in common use among classical Greek historians, orators and philosophers. One hundred of these are dealt with at great
This school edition gives the Latin text of Book II of Julius Caesar's De Bello Gallico, with an Introduction givingbackground information on Gaul, the military situation, the Roman army, the author a
This introduction to Homer assumes no prior knowledge of Greek. The first six sections deal with the elements of grammar that are a necessary preliminary to study. From the seventh section onwards the
Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal marks the intrusion of modernity into the French poetic tradition. The carefully ordered collection (here presented in its 1861 edition) betrays a frighteningly honest p
This concise and informative introduction to the Attic orators, a volume in the well established Classical World series,is aimed at the late school and undergraduate student. It includes valuable comm
Presented in their original medieval Latin and with commentary and notes in English, this is a translation of thirty poems from Carmina Burana.The Carmina Burana is a collection of poems, songs and su
Autenrieth's "Homeric Dictionary" has long been the best and most complete student's guide to the language and antiquities of Homer. All the 9,000 words used in the "Iliad&a
Hellenistic Philosophy is a thorough introduction to the three schools of philosophy which dominated the Hellenistic era: Stoicism, Epicureanism and Scepticism. It traces the main developments in Gre
A valuable collection of essays on Aristotle's metaphysics, by J.L. Akrill, Jacob Bernays, Jonathan Barnes, Norman Gulley, W.W. Fortenbaugh, Charles H. Kahn, Malcolm Schofield and Richard Sorabji. The
Drawing on a full range of Cicero's speeches, essays andcorrespondence, as well as on the most recent research, Rawson's bookmakes fascinating reading for historians, classicists, and anyoneinterested
