Aineias the Tactician

David Whitehead

• Paperback | Engels | Classical Studies
• Virgil lived through the fall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Empire. In his poems we see a series of attempts, increasingly ambiti... Lees meer

Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War Books VI and VII

Thucydides

• Paperback | Engels | Classical Studies
• This useful companion, keyed by bold lemmata to the Penguin translation, identifies the basic issues and raises key questions. The reader is aided by ... Lees meer

Menander

Menander, S Ireland

• Paperback | Engels | Classical Studies
• These comedies by Menander reveal that the oft-employed theme of mistaken identity is as old as the Great Dionysia. Teachers and students will find th... Lees meer

Aristophanes: Clouds, Acharnians, Lysistrata

Kenneth J Dover, Simon Tremewan

• Paperback | Engels | Classical Studies
• This companion to Alan Sommerstein's Penguin translation of Aristophanes' Clouds Acharnians and Lysistrata is intended for the Greekless reader. An in... Lees meer

Suetonius: The Flavian Emperors

Suetonius

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• Nero's suicide in AD 68 was followed by a disastrous civil war that left the empire in a parlous state and saw the demise, in quick succession, of ano... Lees meer

Plutarch: Lives of Galba and Otho

Plutarch

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• Plutarch's "Lives of Galba and Otho" constitute the earliest surviving history of the shocking events that shook the Roman Empire in AD 68 and 69 - th... Lees meer

Homer's Iliad

Peter Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Classical Studies
• Homer's mighty epic, the Iliad, is the first work of western literature and one of the defining masterpieces of our culture. The purpose of this new l... Lees meer

Fronto: Selected Letters

M Cornelius Fronto

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• M. Cornelius Fronto was a Roman senator from North Africa, and the foremost Latin orator and legal advocate of the mid-second century A.D. Fronto's ta... Lees meer

Tacitus: Annals XIV

Tacitus

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• This companion to the Penguin translation of Tacitus' book XIV provides commentary on an important period of Roman history, the years 59-62 AD when Ne... Lees meer

Plautus: Menaechmi

Plautus

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• 'Menaechmi' is a broad farce that makes use of the comic possibilities of mistaken identity. Shakespeare adapted the plot for his 'Comedy of Errors', ... Lees meer

Cicero: Select Letters

M M Willcock

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• Cicero's letters are unique, both as evidence for a most important period of ancient history, the end of the Roman Republic, and as a portrayal of the... Lees meer

Propertius: Elegies I

Propertius

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• Propertius' celebration of his love for Cynthia broke new ground in Latin poetry: sensuous, passionate, witty, yet complex and allusive. The appeal of... Lees meer

Aeschylus: Persians

Aeschylus

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• The Persians ( Persae ) is Aeschylus' first surviving play. Unlike all other surviving Greek tragedies, which deal with persons and events from the re... Lees meer

Diodorus Siculus: Philippic Narrative

Diodorus Siculus

• Paperback | Engels | Classical Studies
• This edition, one of the BCP Classics Companion Series, provides a translation and detailed commentary of the Greek and Macedonian narrative of Diodor... Lees meer

The Aeneid of Virgil

Robert Deryck Williams

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• The Aeneid of Virgil is one of the greatest works of Classical antiquity. This study by the Virgilian scholar R. Deryck Williams, first published in 1... Lees meer

Sophocles: Antigone and Oedipus the King

John Wilkins, Matthew MacLeod

• Paperback | Engels | Classical Studies
• These two Greek tragedies need no introduction. Their power, riches and influence are immense. All the more reason, therefore, for a volume that can s... Lees meer

Herodotus: Persian Wars

Herodotus

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• This companion, keyed to the Penguin translation of Aubrey de Selincourt, is to those parts of Herodotus' history that tell the story of Marathon, Sal... Lees meer

Euripides: Medea and Electra

John Ferguson

• Paperback | Engels | Classical Studies
• Euripides was particularly noted for his sensitive portrayals of women and for finding a sympathetic side to those whom the stock mythology tended to ... Lees meer

Plutarch: Life of Pericles

A J Podlecki

• Paperback | Engels | Classical Studies
• This companion to the Penguin translation of Plutarch's Life of Pericles is divided into three parts. The introduction covers Pericles' life, writings... Lees meer

Acts of the Apostles

• Paperback | Engels | Classical Studies
• The Acts of the Apostles is one of the very few surviving ancient texts to give us a picture of the world from the point of view of those outside the ... Lees meer

Sallust: Conspiracy of Catiline

Patrick McGushin

• Paperback | Engels | Classical Studies
• This companion to the Penguin translation by S.A. Handford of Sallust's account of the conspiracy of Catiline provides a useful introduction, notes on... Lees meer

Plato: Statesman

Plato

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• Plato's "Politicus" (Statesman) stands, both in date and in political thought, between the "Republic" and the "Laws". It presents his thought at the p... Lees meer

Terence: Eunuch, Phormio, the Brothers

John Barsby

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• This book, keyed to the Penguin translation, introduces three of Terence's most entertaining and widely read plays. The selection demonstrates his ver... Lees meer

Homer's Odyssey

Peter Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Classical Studies
• Peter Jones provides a line-by-line commentary on Homer's Odyssey that explains the factual details, mythological allusions, and Homeric conventions t... Lees meer