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Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book II
Av Thucydides, Jeffrey S. Rusten
Häftad, 1989
617 kr
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The second book of Thucydides' history is of particular literary interest, containing as it does such important sections as the funeral oration, the account of the plague at Athens and the obituary of Pericles. Professor Rusten's commentary aims to assist the students to learn to read Thucydides. …
Homer: Iliad Book XXIII
Av Adrian Kelly
Häftad, 2026
485 kr
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Book XXIII of the Iliad deals with the Funeral Games of Patroclus, whose death Achilles has avenged in Book XXII with his slaying of Hector. It provides a crucial element to the closure of Homer's epic, encapsulating its narrative and prominent themes, preparing the audience for the future of the …
Plato: Protagoras
Av Plato, Nicholas Denyer
Häftad, 2008
502 kr
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The Protagoras is one of Plato's most entertaining dialogues. It represents Socrates at a gathering of the most celebrated and highest-earning intellectuals of the day, among them the sophist Protagoras. In flamboyant displays of both rhetoric and dialectic, Socrates and Protagoras try to out-argue …
Cicero: De re publica
Selections
Av Marcus Tullius Cicero, James E. G. Zetzel
Häftad, 1995
536 kr
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Cicero's De re publica contains the fullest ancient account of the theory of the mixed constitution and the oldest extant narrative of early Roman history; it concludes with the Dream of Scipio, one of the most influential ancient visions of the afterlife. The argument of the dialogue concerns the …
Cicero: Catilinarians
Catilinarians
Av Marcus Tullius Cicero, Andrew R. Dyck
Häftad, 2008
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469 kr
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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 statesmanship. The four speeches he delivered during the …
Homer: Iliad Book XXIV
Häftad, 1982
579 kr
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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 Colin Macleod tries to reach both scholars and Greekless …
Homer: Iliad Book VI
Av Barbara Graziosi, Johannes Haubold
Häftad, 2010
560 kr
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The sixth book of the Iliad includes some of the most memorable and best-loved episodes in the whole poem: it holds meaning and interest for many different people, not just students of ancient Greek. Book 6 describes how Glaukos and Diomedes, though fighting on opposite sides, recognise an ancient …
Lysias: Selected Speeches
Häftad, 1990
560 kr
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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 because the language is accessible even to the …
Greek Lyric
A Selection
Häftad, 2018
579 kr
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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 since antiquity. This edition gathers poems by seven of …
Plato: The Apology of Socrates and Xenophon: The Apology of Socrates
The Apology of Socrates and Xenophon: The Apology of Socrates
Häftad, 2019
401 kr
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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 of the next few generations wished to follow. The …
Longus: Daphnis and Chloe
Av Longus, Ewen Bowie
Häftad, 2019
519 kr
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Longus' Daphnis and Chloe is arguably our finest surviving Greek novel. Written under the Roman Empire and engaging with romantic, pastoral and rhetorical themes, the story and characterisation have captured the imaginations of artists over the centuries. Despite a growing interest in ancient …
Sidonius Apollinaris: Selected Letters
Av Joop Van Waarden, Joop van Waarden
Häftad, 2026
500 kr
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Sidonius Apollinaris' fifth-century Letters are a highpoint of Latin literature. They are also a unique document from the end of the Western Roman Empire on the brink of the Middle Ages. They have a direct appeal to modern readers for the struggle between tradition and innovation, dominant and …
Cicero: De Natura Deorum Book I
Av Marcus Tullius Cicero, Andrew R. Dyck
Häftad, 2003
635 kr
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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 and skeptical modes as well as his art of …
Ovid: Metamorphoses Book XIV
Av Ovid, K. Sara Myers
Häftad, 2009
552 kr
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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 fantastic tales of metamorphosis, including the erotic …
Sophocles: Electra
Av Sophocles, J. H. Kells
Häftad, 1973
617 kr
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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 confrontations of principle and character depicted …
Euripides: Hecuba
Häftad, 2018
542 kr
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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 relations. It narrates the death of Hecuba's daughter …
Plautus: Pseudolus
Häftad, 2020
502 kr
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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: brilliant linguistic play, creative appropriation of …
Homer: Odyssey Books XIII and XIV
Av Homer, A. M. Bowie
Häftad, 2014
542 kr
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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. Books XIII and XIV contain some of the subtlest …
Plutarch: How to Study Poetry (De audiendis poetis)
Av Plutarch, Richard Hunter m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
569 kr
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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 can seem rather alien to those brought up in the …
Lucretius: De Rerum NaturaBook III
Häftad, 2014
523 kr
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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 dissolution of the body than it had done before its …
Pliny the Younger: 'Epistles' Book II
Av Pliny the Younger, Christopher Whitton
Häftad, 2013
560 kr
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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 second book is a typically varied yet taut suite of …
Euripides: Hecuba
Inbunden, 2018
1554 kr
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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 relations. It narrates the death of Hecuba's daughter …
Augustine: Confessions Books V-IX
Av Augustine, Peter White
Häftad, 2019
502 kr
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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 invaluable for those wishing to read his story in the …
Tacitus: Annals Book XV
Av Tacitus, Rhiannon Ash
Häftad, 2017
535 kr
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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 system survived Nero's flamboyant and hedonistic tenure …
Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound
Häftad, 1983
654 kr
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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 drama of tragic tone and proportions. In the …
Epistles Book I
Av Horace, Roland Mayer
Häftad, 1994
579 kr
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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 invention of the new poetic form and the carefully …
Virgil: Georgics: Volume 1, Books I-II
Häftad, 1988
579 kr
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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 controversial, poem in Roman literature'. He presents the …
Demosthenes: Selected Private Speeches
Av Demosthenes, C. Carey m. fl.
Häftad, 1985
560 kr
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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-the-street. It is as vehicles of persuasion that Dr …
Plutarch: Life of Antony
Häftad, 1988
635 kr
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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 Pelling is concerned throughout to discuss the work as …
Aeschylus: Eumenides
Av Aeschylus, Alan H. Sommerstein
Häftad, 1989
617 kr
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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 dramas the one most consciously designed to be …
