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Cicero: Catilinarians

av Marcus Tullius Cicero, Andrew R Dyck, Andrew R Dyck

Häftad, Engelska, 2008-04-10

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As consul in 63 BC Cicero faced a conspiracy to overthrow the Roman state launched by the frustrated consular candidate Lucius Sergius Catilina. Cicero's handling of this crisis would shape foreverafter the way he defined himself and his statesman...

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Homer: Iliad Book I

av Seth L Schein, Seth L Schein

Häftad, Engelska, 2022-06-30

310

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Book I of the Iliad marks the beginning of the first surviving work of Greek literature. This edition with commentary enables readers at all levels to interpret the poetry with heightened pleasure and understanding. It provides help with the morph...

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Tacitus: Annals Book XV

av Tacitus, Rhiannon Ash, Rhiannon Ash

Häftad, Engelska, 2017-12-28

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Tacitus' account of Nero's principate is an extraordinary piece of historical writing. His graphic narrative (including Annals XV) is one of the highlights of the greatest surviving historian of the Roman Empire. It describes how the imperial syst...

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Greek Lyric

av Felix Budelmann, Felix Budelmann

Häftad, Engelska, 2018-05-24

425

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The corpus of Greek lyric holds a twofold attraction. It provides glimpses of the song culture of early Greece in which lyric performance had a central place, and it presents us with some captivating and memorable poetry which has been admired sin...

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Lysias: Selected Speeches

av Lysias, Christopher Carey, C Carey

Häftad, Engelska, 1990-01-25

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The Greek prose writer Lysias is a fascinating source for the study of Athenian law, society and history in the late fifth century BC. Six of his professional legal speeches are selected in this new edition, both for their intrinsic interest and b...

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Dio Chrysostom Orations: 7, 12 and 36

av Dio Chrysostom, Dio, Chrysostom Dio, D A Russell, D A Russell

Häftad, Nygrekiska (1453-), 1992-10-08

526

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Dio of Prusa, known as Dio Chrysostom, was the foremost orator in the classical world in the first century AD. This new edition, with introduction and commentary, presents three of his speeches, all of which are masterpieces of the genre and are p...

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Cicero: Select Letters

av Marcus Tullius Cicero, D R Shackleton Bailey, D R Shackleton Bailey, Shackleton D R Bailey

Häftad, Engelska, 1980-07-03

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Professor Shackleton Bailey is renowned for his major scholarly editions of Cicero's letters already published by Cambridge University Press. This selection from the complete correspondence is designed specifically for students at universities and...

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Cicero: De Natura Deorum Book I

av Marcus Tullius Cicero, Andrew R Dyck, Cicero Marcus Tullius, Andrew R Dyck

Häftad, Engelska, 2003-07-31

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Book 1 of De Natura Deorum exhibits in a nutshell Cicero's philosophical method, with the prior part stating the case for Epicurean theology, the latter (rather longer) part refuting it. Thus the reader observes Cicero at work in both constructive...

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Ovid: Metamorphoses Book XIV

av Ovid, K Sara Myers

Häftad, Engelska, 2009-12-24

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In Book XIV of the Metamorphoses Ovid takes his epic for the first time into Italy and continues from book XIII his close intertextual engagement with Virgil's Aeneid. His tendentious treatment of his model subordinates Virgil's epic plot to fanta...

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Sophocles: Electra

av Sophocles, J H Kells, Sophocles Sophocles

Häftad, Engelska, 1973-03-08

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In this edition of Sophocles' Electra, one of the greatest tragedies in Greek or any literature, Mr Kells presents the play as a study in revenge, but in a subtle way whose meaning depends upon the continuous use of dramatic irony. He relates the ...

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Euripides: Hecuba

av Luigi Battezzato, Luigi Battezzato

Häftad, Engelska, 2018-01-11

396

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Hecuba was the most widely read play of Euripides from antiquity to the Renaissance, appealing to readers and spectators for its controversial treatment of moral themes: revenge, war and slavery, violence, human sacrifice, gender and ethnic relati...

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Plato: The Apology of Socrates and Xenophon: The Apology of Socrates

av Plato, Xenophon, Plato, Xenophon, Nicholas Denyer

Häftad, Engelska, 2019-04-18

307

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In 399 BC Socrates was prosecuted, convicted, sentenced to death and executed. These events were the culmination of a long philosophical career, a career in which, without writing a word, he established himself as the figure whom all philosophers ...

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Plautus: Pseudolus

av David Christenson, David Christenson

Häftad, Engelska, 2020-07-09

411

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Pseudolus of all Plautus' comedies most fully reveals its author's metapoetics. As its eponymous clever slave telegraphs his every move to spectators, Pseudolus highlights the aesthetic, social, and performative priorities of Plautine comedy: bril...

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Homer: Odyssey Books XIII and XIV

av Homer, Homer, A M Bowie, A M Bowie

Häftad, Engelska, 2014-01-09

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The second part of the Odyssey takes epic in new directions, giving significant roles to people of 'lower status' and their way of life: epic notions of the primacy of the aristocrat and the achievements of the Trojan War are submitted to scrutiny...

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Plutarch: How to Study Poetry (De audiendis poetis)

av Plutarch, Richard Hunter, Donald Russell, Richard Hunter, Donald Russell

Häftad, Engelska, 2011-06-30

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Plutarch's essay 'How to Study Poetry' offers a set of reading practices intended to remove the potential damage that poetry can do to the moral health of young readers. It opens a window on to a world of ancient education and scholarship which ca...

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Lucretius: De Rerum NaturaBook III

av Lucretius, Lucretius, E J Kenney, E J Kenney

Häftad, Engelska, 2014-08-14

382

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The third book of Lucretius' great poem on the workings of the universe is devoted entirely to expounding the implications of Epicurus' dictum that death does not matter, 'is nothing to us'. The soul is not immortal: it no more exists after the di...

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Pliny the Younger: 'Epistles' Book II

av Pliny The Younger, Pliny The Younger, Christopher Whitton, Christopher Whitton

Häftad, Engelska, 2013-11-21

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Pliny the Younger's nine-book Epistles is a masterpiece of Roman prose. Often mined as a historical and pedagogical sourcebook, this collection of 'private' letters is now finding recognition as a rich and rewarding work in its own right. The seco...

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Euripides: Hecuba

av Luigi Battezzato, Luigi Battezzato

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018-01-11

1130

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Hecuba was the most widely read play of Euripides from antiquity to the Renaissance, appealing to readers and spectators for its controversial treatment of moral themes: revenge, war and slavery, violence, human sacrifice, gender and ethnic relati...

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Augustine: Confessions Books V-IX

av Augustine, Peter White, Peter White

Häftad, Engelska, 2019-09-12

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Books V-IX of the Confessions trace five crucial years in the life of Augustine, from his debut as a teacher of rhetoric in North Africa to his baptism as a Christian and the renunciation of a worldly career in Milan. This commentary will be inval...

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Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound

av Aeschylus, Mark Griffith, P E Easterling

Häftad, Engelska, 1983-05-19

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The myth of fire stolen from the gods appears in many pre-industrial societies. In Greek culture Prometheus the fire-stealer figures prominently in the poems of Hesiod, but in Prometheus Bound Hesiod's morality tale has been transformed into a dra...

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Epistles Book I

av Horace, Roland Mayer, P E Easterling, Philip Hardie

Häftad, Engelska, 1994-09-22

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This volume comprises an edition with introduction and commentary of the first book of Horace's Epistles. These imaginary letters in verse represent the poet's most original contribution to Latin literature. The introduction discusses fully the in...

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Apuleius: Cupid and Psyche

av Apuleius, Lucius Apuleius, E J Kenney, E J Kenney, Edwin J Kenney

Häftad, Engelska, 1990-12-06

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Apuleius' story of Cupid and Psyche, the relationship of the human Soul with divine Love, is one of the great allegories of world literature. It forms an integral part of and profoundly illuminates the message of his novel Metamorphoses or The Gol...

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Virgil: Georgics: Volume 1, Books I-II

av Virgil, Richard F Thomas, Richard F Thomas, P E Easterling, Philip Hardie

Häftad, Engelska, 1988-07-29

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This volume and its companion volume devoted to the second half of the poem provide a detailed commentary, with text, on the whole of Virgil's Georgics. Professor Thomas describes this work as 'perhaps the most difficult, certainly the most contro...

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Demosthenes: Selected Private Speeches

av Demosthenes, C Carey, R A Reid, Christopher Carey

Häftad, Engelska, 1985-07-18

411

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The four private speeches contained in this collection were functional artefacts whose object was to persuade a jury numbered in hundreds by manipulating both the facts of the case and the prejudices, beliefs and attitudes of the Athenian man-in-t...

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Plutarch: Life of Antony

av Plutarch, C B R Pelling, C B R Pelling, P E Easterling

Häftad, Engelska, 1988-05-26

439

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Plutarch's Life of Antony is a work remarkable for its colourful narrative and vivid characterisation of Antony and Cleopatra. This book presents the Greek text of the Life, accompanied by an extensive introduction and a detailed commentary. Dr Pe...

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Aeschylus: Eumenides

av Aeschylus, Alan H Sommerstein

Häftad, Engelska, 1989-11-09

440

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Professor Sommerstein here presents a freshly constituted text, with introduction and commentary, of Eumenides, the climactic play of the only surviving complete Greek tragic trilogy, the Oresteia of Aeschylus. Eumenides is of all Athenian tragic ...

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Homer: Iliad Book XXIV

av Homer, Colin W MacLeod, C W MacLeod

Häftad, Engelska, 1982-03-04

425

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The twenty-fourth book of the Iliad - the account of Priam's ransoming of Hector's body from Achilles - is one of the masterpieces of world literature, a work of interest to a far wider audience than scholars of ancient Greek. In this edition Coli...

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Sophocles: Trachiniae

av Sophocles, P E Easterling, Philip Hardie

Häftad, Nygrekiska (1453-), 1982-10-28

440

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Sophocles' Trachiniae is, in the editor's words, 'a subtle and sophisticated play about primitive emotions'. It is also a play which presents problems to a modern audience. Making full use of recent Sphoclean scholarship, Mrs Easterling attempts i...

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Seneca: Apocolocyntosis

av Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Seneca, Seneca Lucius Annaeus, P T Eden, P T Eden

Häftad, Engelska, 1984-03-15

411

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The Gourdification of Claudius the God has instant and lasting appeal. It is a uniquely surviving specimen of prose-and-verse satire from the Roman world - and satire, a Roman speciality, is one of the few types of ancient literature to survive, a...

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Terence: Adelphoe

av Terence, R H Martin, R H Martin, P E Easterling

Häftad, Engelska, 1976-05-13

411

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The Adelphoe (The Brothers) of Terence is a Latin adaptation of a comedy of the same name by the Greek comic playwright Menander. The theme of the play is the perennially interesting question of the relationship between the generations and the pro...

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