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Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Häftad, 2017
895 kr
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This edition presents a radically improved text of Diogenes Laertius' Lives of Eminent Philosophers. The text is accompanied by a full critical apparatus on three levels. A lengthy introduction lists all the manuscripts of the Lives and discusses its transmission in late antiquity, the Middle Ages …
Plato: Clitophon
Av Plato, S. R. Slings
Häftad, 2006
813 kr
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The Clitophon, a dialogue generally ascribed to Plato, is significant for focusing on Socrates' role as an exhorter of other people to engage in philosophy. It was almost certainly intended to bear closely on Plato's Republic and is a fascinating specimen of the philosophical protreptic, an …
Bion of Smyrna: The Fragments and the Adonis
Av Bion, J. D. Reed
Häftad, 2007
905 kr
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The work of Bion of Smyrna, the late Hellenistic writer of bucolic poetry, survives in seventeen fragments and the longer Epitaph on Adonis. In this edition, J. D. Reed presents a Greek text of the poems together with a facing translation. The substantial introduction covers Bion's place in the …
Theophrastus: Characters
Häftad, 2007
1460 kr
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Theophrastus' Characters is a collection of 30 short character-sketches of various types of individuals who might be met in the streets of Athens in the late fourth century BC. It is a work which had a profound influence on European literature, and this is a detailed and elaborate treatment of it. …
The Tragedies of Ennius
The Fragments
Häftad, 2008
654 kr
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The Tragedies of Ennius were theatrical adaptations of Attic originals. None has survived; but fragments of twenty-two of them can be found in the work of other writers. Dr Jocelyn prints all the identifiable fragments, substantial extracts from the works which quote them and, where necessary, a …
Frontinus: De Aquaeductu Urbis Romae
Häftad, 2009
838 kr
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In 97 CE Julius Frontinus was appointed by the Emperor Nerva to the post of water commissioner for the city of Rome. In the De Aquaductu Urbis Romae he sets forth his duties, responsibilities and accomplishments during his first year in office. He sketches the history of the aqueducts, furnishes a …
Galen: On Problematical Movements
Av Galen, Vivian Nutton
Inbunden, 2011
2100 kr
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In this forgotten treatise, preserved largely in medieval translations into Arabic and Latin, the greatest medical scientist of antiquity investigates the relationship between conscious and unconscious movements. He looks at the structure of the tongue and the oesophagus, and asks why mental …
Octavia
A Play Attributed to Seneca
Häftad, 2009
842 kr
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This 2003 book is a full-length study of Octauia, the only complete Roman drama of an historical subject, or fabula praetexta. The play deals with Nero's divorce from the princess Octavia, Claudius' daughter by Valeria Messalina, and with his subsequent marriage to Poppaea Sabina. Professor Ferri …
Callimachus: The Fifth Hymn
The Bath of Pallas
Häftad, 2009
687 kr
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Callimachus was one of the most important and influential writers in the ancient world. He was the outstanding poet of the Hellenistic period and had a profound effect on the subsequent course of Greek and Roman literature. The hymns are intricate, allusive and difficult poetry, and need …
Ovid: Ars Amatoria, Book III
Av Ovid, Roy K. Gibson
Häftad, 2009
860 kr
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This is a full-scale commentary devoted to the third book of Ovid's Ars Amatoria. It includes an Introduction, a revision of E. J. Kenney's Oxford text of the book, and detailed line-by-line and section-by-section commentary on the language and ideas of the text. Combining traditional philological …
Antiphon the Sophist
The Fragments
Av Antiphon, Gerard J. Pendrick m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
732 kr
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This edition collects all the surviving evidence for the fifth-century BCE Athenian sophist Antiphon and presents it together with a translation and a full commentary, which assesses its reliability and significance. Although Antiphon is not as familiar a figure as sophists such as Protagoras and …
Alexis: The Fragments
A Commentary
Häftad, 2011
830 kr
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This 1996 text was the first detailed commentary to be compiled on the fragments of the Greek comic poet Alexis. Alexis seems to have had an important effect on the development of Greek New Comedy, both in the presentation and choice of characters and in the structuring of the type of New Comedy …
Aenesidemus of Cnossus
Testimonia
Inbunden, 2014
1938 kr
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This book provides the first edition of all the testimonia on the Sceptic philosopher Aenesidemus of Cnossus, who is deemed to be the source of Sextus Empiricus, the main surviving authority on ancient Scepticism. It provides an extensive philosophical and historical commentary, and throws light on …
Callimachus: The Fifth Hymn
The Bath of Pallas
Inbunden, 1985
1682 kr
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Callimachus was one of the most important and influential writers in the ancient world. He was the outstanding poet of the Hellenistic period and had a profound effect on the subsequent course of Greek and Roman literature. The hymns are intricate, allusive and difficult poetry, and need …
Callimachus: Hymn to Demeter
Av Callimachus, Neil Hopkinson
Inbunden, 1984
1693 kr
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Callimachus was one of the most important and influential writers in the ancient world. He was the outstanding poet of the Hellenistic period, and had a profound effect on the subsequent course of Greek and Roman literature. The hymns are intricate, allusive and difficult poetry, and need …
Pindar: 'Pythian Eleven'
Häftad, 2011
636 kr
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Pindar's Pythian Eleven is a miniature masterpiece: a poem praising a young athlete which presents a vivid and important account of the Agamemnon legend. Yet it contains so many difficulties (of text, metre, dating and interpretation) that even Wilamowitz regarded it as one of Pindar's most obscure …
Sophocles: Electra
Häftad, 2011
663 kr
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One of Sophocles' more accomplished dramas, the Electra has always generated a good deal of scholarly debate. This 2007 edition, the first full-scale commentary on any play of Sophocles since the nineteenth century, explores afresh long-standing controversies such as the moral status of the killing …
Cicero: Cato Maior de Senectute
Av Marcus Tullius Cicero, J. G. F. Powell
Inbunden, 1988
2142 kr
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This is a complete critical edition of Cicero's Cato Maior de Senectute (On Old Age) with an introduction and commentary. The text is based on a fresh examination of the manuscript tradition while the introduction aims to place the work in the context of Cicero's writings on old age in the ancient …
Euripides: Phoenissae
Av Euripides, Donald J. Mastronarde
Inbunden, 1994
3765 kr
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This volume provides a thorough philological and dramatic commentary on Euripides' Phoenissae, the first detailed commentary in English since 1911. Phoenissae is of special interest both as a specimen of late Euripidean dramaturgy, and as the subject of longstanding disputes over the extent of …
Aristotle: 'Historia Animalium': Volume 1, Books I-X: Text
Av Aristotle, D. M. Balme
Inbunden, 2002
3420 kr
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David Balme's major critical edition of Aristotle's largest and perhaps least studied treatise is based on a collation of the 26 known extant manuscripts and a study of the early Latin translations. Begun in 1975, with his work towards the Loeb editio minor of books VII-X, this edition of all ten …
Cicero: Pro P. Sulla oratio
Av Marcus Tullius Cicero, Dominic H. Berry
Inbunden, 1996
2247 kr
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In 62 BC, the year after his suppression of Catiline, Cicero delivered Pro Sulla, a successful defence of P. Cornelius Sulla, the nephew of the dictator, on a charge of participation in the Catilinarian conspiracy. This edition, which contains a new text together with introduction, commentary and …
Alexis: The Fragments
A Commentary
Inbunden, 1996
3909 kr
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This 1996 text was the first detailed commentary to be compiled on the fragments of the Greek comic poet Alexis. Alexis seems to have had an important effect on the development of Greek New Comedy, both in the presentation and choice of characters and in the structuring of the type of New Comedy …
The Annals of Tacitus: Book 3
Av Tacitus, A. J. Woodman m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
3684 kr
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Books 1 and 2 of Tacitus' Annals were edited and annotated in two earlier volumes of this series (1972 and 1981) by the late F. R. D. Goodyear. Now A. J. Woodman and R. H. Martin have added a third volume: Book 3 of the Annals. This book covers the years AD 20-22, including the aftermath of …
Bion of Smyrna: The Fragments and the Adonis
Av Bion, J. D. Reed
Inbunden, 1997
2270 kr
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The work of Bion of Smyrna, the late Hellenistic writer of bucolic poetry, survives in seventeen fragments and the longer Epitaph on Adonis. In this edition, J. D. Reed presents a Greek text of the poems together with a facing translation. The substantial introduction covers Bion's place in the …
Aratus: Phaenomena
Av Aratus, Douglas Kidd
Inbunden, 1997
3971 kr
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Aratus of Soli was a highly original poet of the early third century BC, famous throughout antiquity for his didactic epic on constellations and weather signs, and imitated by later Greek and Latin poets. Modelled on Hesiod's Works and Days the poem is cleverly updated to appeal to the interests of …
Cicero: Pro P. Sulla oratio
Av Marcus Tullius Cicero, Dominic H. Berry
Häftad, 2004
502 kr
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In 62 BC, the year after his suppression of Catiline, Cicero delivered Pro Sulla, a successful defence of P. Cornelius Sulla, the nephew of the dictator, on a charge of participation in the Catilinarian conspiracy. This edition, which contains a new text together with introduction, commentary and …
Euripides: Phaethon
Häftad, 2004
973 kr
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The surviving text of the fragmentary Phaethon of Euripides depends chiefly on two sources: two pages from a Euripidean manuscript, written about A.D. 500, and a papyrus of the third century B.C., which contains a substantial part of the parodos. These sources are supplemented by a number of …
Posidonius: Volume 1, The Fragments
Av Posidonius, L. Edelstein m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
1139 kr
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To coincide with the publication of Professor Kidd's long-awaited Commentary on Posidonius, the text of the Fragments, first published in 1972, is being issued in a new edition. This edition contains sixty new readings, nearly eighty alterations to the apparatus criticus, corrections of errors, and …
The Annals of Tacitus: Volume 2, Annals 1.55-81 and Annals 2
Häftad, 2004
1666 kr
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This book is the second volume of one of Professor Goodyear's greatest works of Latin literature and one of the most important sources for the history of the Roman Empire. His edition is accompanied by a major commentary which deals fully with textual, linguistic, literary, and historical matters. …
Incerti Auctoris Aetna
Av F. R. D. Goodyear, James Diggle m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
898 kr
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The Aetna is something of a curiosity: a didactic poem on the nature and causes of volcanic activity. In antiquity it was ascribed by some to Virgil; modern scholars reject this and, although unable to agree upon a date, favour the first century A.D. The text itself presents many problems in …
