John Claughton – författare

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentaries, including suggestions for discussion and analysis. In addition, numerous practical questions stimulate ideas on staging and encourage students to explore the play's dramatic qualities. Clouds is suitable for students of both Classical Civilisation and Drama. Useful features include full synopsis of the play, commentary alongside translation for easy reference and a comprehensive introduction to the Greek Theatre. Clouds is aimed primarily at A-level and undergraduate students in the UK, and college students in North America.

An exciting series that provides students with direct access to the ancient world by offering new translations of extracts from its key texts. Herodotus, writing in the second half of the 5th century BC, is the first historian of western civilisation. His narrative tells of the expansion of the Persian Empire in the 6th and 5th centuries BC and the wars between Greece and Persia in 490 and 480 BC. Some of the most famous battles of history, Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis, are dramatically described in his work. His purpose is to explain why the wars happened and his sophisticated and complex answer encompasses the relation of gods to men, the nature of different peoples and the character of individuals.

PLEASE NOTE that due to the previous text options being set for an extra exam year (summer 2021 for AS; summer 2022 for A Level) the dates given in the title, on the cover and inside this book are incorrect. An errata slip has been included.-----The only exam-board approved book for OCR's Greek AS and A-Level set text prescriptions for 2022–24 giving full Greek text, commentary and vocabulary and a detailed introduction for each text that also covers the prescription to be read in English for A Level. The texts covered are:AS and A Level Groups 1&3Thucydides, Histories, Book 6, 19 to 6.32Plato, Symposium, 189c2 to 194e2Homer, Odyssey 1, lines 213–444Sophocles, Ajax, lines 1–133, 284–347, 748–783A Level Groups 2&4Thucydides, Histories, Book 6, 47 to 50.1 and 53 to 61Plato, Symposium, 201d to end of 206bPlutarch, Alcibiades, X.1.1 to XVI.5Homer, Odyssey 6, lines 85–331Sophocles, Ajax, lines 430–582, 646–692, 815–865Aristophanes, Clouds, lines 1–242Resources are available on the Companion Website.