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Longus: Daphnis and Chloe
Häftad, 2009
588 kr
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This edition of Daphnis and Chloe , the best known of the Greek romances, provides the first modern commentary in English on this intriguing work. This is the story of two young people growing up as goatherd and shepherdess, and their discovery of love, sex and their true selves. Beneath the charm …
Cicero: Philippics II
Av Cicero, W. K. Lacey
Häftad, 1986
588 kr
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Cicero’s great polemic against Antony, a literary masterpiece, is here made available with full translation and notes. The introduction to this edition deals with the historical setting, Roman rhetoric and Cicero’s style while the notes are mainly literary, not historical. Attention is paid to …
Augustine: The City of God Books I and II
Av Augustine, P. G. Walsh
Häftad, 2005
487 kr
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This edition of Books I & II of St Augustine's The City of God (De Civitate Dei) is the only edition in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity. In these books, written in the aftermath of …
Tacitus: Annals V and VI
Av Martin, Ronald Martin
Häftad, 2001
588 kr
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Books V and VI of Tacitus’ Annals, when complete, carried the narrative of Tiberius’ reign from AD 29 to 37. Unfortunately most of Book V has been lost, and, with it, Tacitus’ account of the sensational events that led to the execution on 18 October in AD 31 of Aelius Sejanus. Nevertheless, Annals …
Sallust: The War Against Jugurtha
Av Catalina Balmaceda, Michael Comber
Häftad, 2008
635 kr
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The Roman historian C. Sallustius Crispus, better known as Sallust, decided to write about the war against the Numidian king Jugurtha, 'because it was a long and cruel struggle in which fortune swung from side to side; and secondly, because it was then for the first time that a stand was taken …
Aeschylus: Agamemnon
Av Edith Hall
Häftad, 2025
844 kr
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The first revenge drama, the first great female role, the first tragedy set on the cusp between public space and private household, the first part of the only surviving tragic trilogy—the foundational status of Aeschylus’ monumental Agamemnon cannot be over-estimated. Agamemnon’s entry on a …
Aristophanes: Acharnians
Av Sommerstein, Alan H. Sommerstein
Häftad, 1980
588 kr
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The earliest comic drama to survive, Acharnians is a highly committed play, its message being that Athens war with the Peloponnesians can and should be ended, and that peace will mean the restoration of normal life after six years' separation of the country people from their land. First published …
Persius: The Satires
Häftad, 1981
588 kr
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The Satires contain six Latin poems of moderate length in the hexameter metre. Persius belonged to the well-to-do and landowning gentry of Italy and the tone and philosophical content of the Satires suggest that he pursued philosophy with an ardour beyond that conventionally thought proper by …
Ovid: Amores Book II
Av Booth, Joan Booth
Häftad, 1991
588 kr
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Ovid’s three books of personal love elegies are arguably his most attractive work. In this acclaimed edition of Amores Book II, Joan Booth offers a Latin text with parallel prose translation and on each poem, or pair of poems, a critical essay written especially for the reader with little or no …
Lucan: Civil War VIII
Av Mayer, Roland Mayer
Häftad, 1981
588 kr
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In his De Bello Civili Lucan tells the story of the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, dealing in Book VIII with the defeat and death of the latter. This edition provides a literary commentary to accompany the Latin text and the revised translation of J.D.Daff. The introduction covers the life of …
Aristophanes: Knights
Av Aristophanes, Alan H. Sommerstein
Häftad, 1981
588 kr
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Knights was the first play to be produced by Aristophanes on his own behalf. In it, he launched a violent attack on Cleon, the leading politician of the day, on the whole style of leadership that he represented and on a system which seemed to guarantee that a bad leader could be displaced by a …
Thucydides: Pylos 425 BC; Book IV, 2-41
Häftad, 1979
588 kr
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Book IV 2-41 of the Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War concerns the events of the campaign fought at Pylos and the island of Sphacteria between the Athenians and the Spartans in 425 BC. J.B. Wilson's much cited edition includes a Greek text and translation, followed by supplementary tets. …
Aristophanes: Clouds
Av Sommerstein, Alan H. Sommerstein
Häftad, 1991
635 kr
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Clouds is a partly revised version of a play that failed when it was first produced. It has always fascinated (and usually shocked) students of philosophy because of its portrayal of Socrates as an atheist and a teacher of dishonest rhetoric, justly punished by the agents of the gods whom he …
Aristophanes: Wasps
Av Aristophanes, Alan H. Sommerstein
Häftad, 1983
635 kr
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Wasps was first produced at the Lenaea festival of 422 BC. The play is at once a political satire and also, like Clouds and the lost Banqueters, a comedy on the theme of the conflict of generations. The play follows the efforts of a mischievous and mercurial old man to escape the control of a stern …
Pharaoh Triumphant. The Life and Times of Ramesses II
Häftad, 1990
699 kr
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A thorough and detailed account of one of the best known pharaohs of Egypt, written by the leading expert on the subject. Kitchen discusses the early life and childhood of the young king, his reign, politics, wars and policies, and his death and the after-life. This book is to be read rather than …
Plautus: Bacchides
Häftad, 1986
588 kr
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Plautus' Bacchides is one of the best and most typical of his plays which in its treatment of character, theme and dialogue provides an excellent introduction to Plautus. Since the rediscovery of a passage from its Greek model, Menander's Dis Exapaton, it is now in the fore-front of scholarly …
Euripides: Trojan Women
Av Barlow
Häftad, 1986
588 kr
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Trojan Women is very much a play for our times. Strongly against war, it shows its aftermath through the eyes of a group of women, members of the Trojan royal household. They have experienced displacement, degradation and deprivation as their city has been sacked by the Greeks. The play expresses …
Euripides: Phoenician Women
Häftad, 1988
588 kr
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This rich and challenging play ranges over the supreme myth of Oidipous and his doomed family. With its brooding imagery, extravagant language, ebullient rhetoric and scenic display it is quintessential Euripides. With its broad, yet unified, thematic sweep it offers important points of comparison …
Euripides: Heracles
Av Barlow, Shirley Barlow
Häftad, 1996
588 kr
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In this often neglected play, Euripides explores the contrast between myth and reality by portraying the story of Heracles' murder of his wife and children. In treating this act the dramatist explores the boundaries of madness and Heracles’ painful emergence from this state to a bitter realisation …
Euripides: Alcestis
Häftad, 1988
588 kr
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The theme of Euripides’ Alcestis blends the primitive folk-tale of the self-sacrificing bride, Alcestis, and of Heracles’ heroic struggles with the ogre Death, with a morality tale of “virtue rewarded”, in this case twice rewarded. The Alcestis is the only tragedy which we know to have been …
Euripides: Hecuba
Häftad, 1991
588 kr
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Hecuba, in slavery after Troy's fall, fails to dissuade Odysseus, whose life she once saved, from sacrificing her daughter to honour his dead friend, Achilles; but the girl dies proudly, true to her royal blood in surmounting degradation. Then Hecuba learns of her sons' treacherous murder by a …
Euripides: Hippolytus
Av Halleran, Michael R. Halleran
Häftad, 1995
635 kr
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Euripides works with a common story pattern – a young man (Hippolytus) becomes the object of a married woman’s (Phaedra’s) desire, rebuffs her sexual overtures, and is then falsely accused to the woman’s husband (Theseus, Hippolytus’ father) of rape. To this familiar tale Euripides adds the story …
Euripides: Ion
Häftad, 1997
670 kr
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Ion is generally regarded as one of Euripides’ most attractive plays. A skilfully organised plot, charming characters, exciting situations and thought-provoking themes make it an excellent introduction to the study of Greek drama generally and of Euripides in particular. The introduction deals with …
Greek Orators I: Antiphon, Lysias
Häftad, 1985
635 kr
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Rational persuasion and appeal to an audience's emotions are elements of most literature, but they are found in their purest form in oratory. The speeches written by the Greek Orators for delivery in law-courts, deliberative councils and assemblies enjoyed an honoured literary status, and rightly …
Plato: Meno
Av Sharples, Robert W. Sharples
Häftad, 1985
588 kr
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Plato’s Meno is the dialogue which more than any other occupies a transitional position between the early Socratic dialogues and the developed middle period theory of the Phaedo, Symposium and Republic. It is thus of particular interest for the insights that it gives us into the process by which …
Cicero: Tusculan Disputations Book I
Häftad, 1985
588 kr
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A significant two-fold development in recent classical scholarship has been a revival of interest in, and respect for, post-Aristotelian Greek philosophy and Cicero’s contribution to our knowledge of it. Of Cicero’s major works in this field the Tusculan Disputations is perhaps the most …
Cicero: Verrines II.1
Av Cicero
Häftad, 1986
588 kr
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Cicero’s first major triumph was the prosecution of Caius Verres for misgovernment in Sicily. This speech was given in the second part of the trial and shows the development of Cicero’s rhetoric. This edition communicates the literary flavour of the original and discusses the historical and …
Ovid: Metamorphoses Books I–IV
Av Hill, Donald E. Hill
Häftad, 1985
635 kr
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Ovid’s poetical career reached its climax in his masterpiece, the Metamorphoses. The work displays his mature genius and has become a standard treasure-house of mythology for all succeeding generations. This edition of the first four of the fifteen books presents a new line by line translation …
Sophocles: Antigone
Häftad, 1987
588 kr
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Sophocles’ Antigone is among the greatest and most famous of all works of Greek literature, and it is often the play that is read first, whether in Greek or in translation, by those who are beginning to study Greek tragedy. But it is by no means an easy play, and readers requires careful guidance …
