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Highet Gilbert
POETS IN A LANDSCAPE
Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1957. Hardcover. Minor shelfwear. ; With black and white photographs and illustrations. Gilbert Highet explores the personal lives and Italian homes of poets such as Catullus Ovid and Horace. The lives of seven Latin poets as seen through the physical landscape. ; 267 pages . Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30284
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Kurke Leslie
THE TRAFFIC IN PRAISE Pindar and the Poetics of Social Economy
Cornell University Press. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 0801423503 . Former owner's blindstamp to ffep. Else book is fine. ; Myth and Poetics; 287 pages; Commissioned to celebrate athletic victories in the first half of the fifth century B.C. Pindar's odes have continued to resist interpretation by modern readers. In The Traffic in Praise Leslie Kurke offers an engaging new reading of the odes within their rich social context and poetic tradition. . Cornell University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30285 ISBN : 0801423503 9780801423505
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Harrison S. J. ed.
HOMAGE TO HORACE A Bimillenary Celebration
Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 0198149549 . Upper corners rounded. Gift inscription to R. E. Fantham from author in ink to ffep. Light chipping to DJ and shelfwear. ; Contributors: C. O. Brink Francis Cairns I. M. Le M. Du Quesnay D. P. Fowler S. J. Harrison Margaret Hubbard H. D. Jocelyn Antonio La Penna R. G. Mayer M. M. McGann Frances Muecke M. C. J. Putnam H. P. Syndikus R. J. Tarrant L. C. Watson David West Gordon Williams. ; 392 pages; These seventeen new pieces by some of the world's leading classicists have been brought together to celebrate the bimillenary of the Horace's death. The contributions range from detailed treatments of particular poems to general issues about Horace's literary techniques themes biography and reception in later times. An introduction sets the book in the context of contemporary scholarship on the poet.; Signed by Author . Oxford University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30276 ISBN : 0198149549 9780198149545
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Lucan; C. E. Haskins Ed. & W. E. Heitland Introduction
M. ANNAEI LUCANI LUCAN: PHARSALIA Edited with English Notes by C. E. Haskins with an Introduction by W. E. Heitland
George Bell and Sons. Good with no dust jacket. 1887. Hardcover. Ink and pencil notes underlining to some pages. Boards a bit darkened. Spine has a bit of spotting. Corners a bit edgeworn. Endpapers browned and foxed. Former owners' names to ffep and inner cover J. E. Bradshaw R. D. Williams R. E. Fantham; B. Hamilton. General shelfwear. Still a solid copy. ; Cxxxi 398 pp ; Latin Edition; 398 pages . George Bell and Sons hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30274
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Owen E. T.
THE STORY OF THE ILIAD As Told in the Iliad
Clarke Irwin & Company. Fair with no dust jacket. 1966. Softcover. Ex-library copy with usual stamps call numbers and pocket. Spine has masking tape. Creasing rubbing and 1 tear to wraps. Minor pencil marginalia to some pages. Fair ; E. T. Owen discusses what makes the Iliad such an enduring work of art - including narrative technique imagery and characterization - and shows how each incident contributes to the overall emotional effect of the poem. ; 248 pages . Clarke, Irwin & Company paperback
Bookseller reference : 30335
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Plato; F. J. Church Trans. & Robert D. Cumming Rev. by
EUTHYPHRO APOLOGY AND CRITO And the Death Scene from Phaedo by Plato. Translated by F. J. Church. Translation Revised with an Introduction by Robert D. Cumming
The Liberal Arts Press Inc. Good. 1956. Softcover. Some creasing and spotting to wraps. Some underlining and pen notes. ; The Library of Liberal Arts; 70 pages . The Liberal Arts Press, Inc. paperback
Bookseller reference : 30316
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North M. A. and A. E. Hillard
GREEK PROSE COMPOSITION For Schools
Rivingtons. Fair with no dust jacket. 1900. Third Edition. Hardcover. Boards worn. Spine cover torn along joints and crudely . Contents shaken. Pages 163-175 almost falling out. Some pencilling. Working copy only. ; 272 pages . Rivingtons hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30320
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Hesiod; Norman O. Brown
HESIOD'S THEOGONY Translated with an Introduction
The Liberal Arts Press Inc. Very Good-. 1953. Softcover. 0672602024 . Minor shelfwear and rubbing to wraps. Old price sticker to front wrap. Underlining in pencil to about 6 pages. Former owner's bookplate on ffep. ; Long English introduction with English translation. Does not include Greek text. ; The Library of Liberal Arts; 87 pages . The Liberal Arts Press, Inc. paperback
Bookseller reference : 30317 ISBN : 0672602024 9780672602023
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Propertius; J. S. Phillimore Tr.
PROPERTIUS
Oxford At the Clarendon Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1906. Hardcover. Edgewear to corners and spine ends. Minor staining to boards. Very small dampstain to edge of a few pages. ; 183 pages . Oxford At the Clarendon Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30439
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Vergil / Virgil; James Lonsdale & Samuel Lee Trans.
THE WORKS OF VIRGIL RENDERED INTO ENGLISH PROSE With Introductions Running Analysis Notes and an Index
London: MacMillan and Co. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1910. Hardcover. A few small tears to spine ends. Minor edgewear. Light pencilling. A few pages carelessly opened with a few small tears. ; 310pp. The Globe Edition. ; Globe Edition; 310 pages . MacMillan and Co. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30440
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Ehrenberg Victor
THE PEOPLE OF ARISTOPHANES A Sociology of Old Attic Comedy
Schocken Books. Very Good. 1962. Softcover. Spine sunned. Minor shelfwear. Light yellowing to wraps. ; A detailed account of Athenian life based primarily on the evidence of Old Attic Comedy. ; 385 pages . Schocken Books paperback
Bookseller reference : 30437
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Terence; H. R. Fairclough
P. TERENTI AFRI TERENCE: ANDRIA With Introduction and Notes. Fairclough's Andria of Terence
Allyn & Bacon. Good with no dust jacket. 1901. Second Edition. Hardcover. A few ink notes to Latin text. Spine a bit sunned. Endpapers tanned. Minor rubbing to boards. Else VG. ; English Commentary and Introduction with Latin Text and index at back. Lxxxi 186 pp ; Allyn and Bacon`s College Latin Series; 186 pages . Allyn & Bacon hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30448
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Aristophanes; W. W. Merry Ed.
ARISTOPHANES: THE CLOUDS ARISTOPHANIS: NUBES With Introduction and Notes.
Oxford Clarendon Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1959. Hardcover. Some pen notes to Greek text. Former owner's bookplate on ffep. ; Xii 104 pp. ; Clarendon Press Series; 104 pages; Greek text with english commentary and introduction. . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30455
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Buxtorf Peter Ed.
RUDIMENTA POETICA. TIROCINIUM HELVETICUM Edidit Peter Buxtorf
Orell F�ssli. Good. N.D. Second Edition. Softcover. Pencil notes to about 10 pages. Else VG. No date 1950s ; Editiones Helveticae. Series Latina 9; 168 pages . Orell F�ssli paperback
Bookseller reference : 30457
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Vergil / Virgil; Charles E. Bennett
VIRGIL'S AENEID BOOKS I-VI With Introduction Notes and Vocabulary
Allyn & Bacon. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1904. Hardcover. Minor rubbing to boards. Former owner's name to ffep. ; Bennett's Latin Series; 461 pages . Allyn & Bacon hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30447
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Terence; C. E. Freeman & Rev. A. Sloman
P. TERENTI TERENCE: ANDRIA With Notes and Introductions Intended for the Higher Forms of Public Schools
Oxford Clarendon Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1897. Second Revised Edition. Hardcover. Light edgewear to boards. Some pencil notes to greek text with a bit of inking. Endpapers tanned. ; Extensive English introduction and notes with latin text. ; Clarendon Press Series; 128 pages . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30452
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Sallust; Josef Lindauer
SALLUST: DIE VERSCHW�RUNG DES CATILINA. Lateinisch Und Deutsch. �bers. Erl�u. Und Mit Einem Essay "Zum Verst�ndnis Des Werkes" Sowie Einer Bibliographie
Rowohlt. Very Good. 1964. Softcover. Pages tanned. ; Latin and German text. ; Lateinische Literatur Band 7; 142 pages . Rowohlt paperback
Bookseller reference : 30461
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Livy; H. M. Stephenson Ed.
TITI LIVI LIBER I LIVY: BOOK I Edited with Notes and Vocabulary for the Use of Schools
MacMillan and Co. Good with no dust jacket. 1957. Hardcover. Endpapers tanned. Former owner's bookplate on ffep. Some pen notes and underlining. ; Elementary Classics; 177 pages . MacMillan and Co. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30449
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Livy; H. J. Edwards Ed.
TITI LIVI TITUS LIVIUS AB URBE CONDITA LIBRI: PRAEFATIO LIBER PRIMUS I LIVY: BOOK I Edited by H. J. Edwards
Cambridge At the University Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1951. Hardcover. Many pencil notes to latin text and endpapers. Scholar's name to inner cover Emmet Robbins. Part of spine cover almost detached. Some wear to boards. ; Reprint of the 1912 ed. Latin text with intro. And English notes. Lxii 234pp. ; Pitt Press Series; 16mo - over 5�" - 6�" tall; 234 pages . Cambridge At the University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30450
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Cicero; Humfrey Grose Hodge Ed.
MURDER AT LARINUM Being the Narrative Portions of Cicero's Speech Pro Cluentio. Selected and Edited
Cambridge At the University Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. Bookseller's large sticker pasted down to ffep. Minor underlining and notes in pen. Pages tanned. Scholar's small bookplate to titlepage H. J. Mason. ; Cambridge Elementary Classics; 93 pages . Cambridge At the University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30454
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Luschnig C. A.
AN INTRODUCTION TO ANCIENT GREEK A Literary Approach
Charles Scribner's Sons. Fair. 1975. Softcover. 0684147106 . Worn wrappers with creasing and small tears and chipping. Creasing to some pages. Scholar's name to ffep Robert Brown. Fair to good. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 406 pages . Charles Scribner's Sons paperback
Bookseller reference : 30469 ISBN : 0684147106 9780684147109
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Curtius Georg & Ernst Windisch
GRUNDZ�GE DER GRIECHISCHEN ETYMOLOGIE
B. G. Teubner. Good with no dust jacket. 1879. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Book rebound in black buckram. Gilt lettering to spine. Scholar's blindstamp to ffep and titlepage Robert Brown. 3 cm closed tear to titlepage. Tears to spine ends with some fraying. Former owner's name in ink to ffep. Still solid. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 858 pages . B. G. Teubner hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30466
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Easterling P. E. Ed.
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO GREEK TRAGEDY
Cambridge University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1997. Softcover. 0521423511 . Very Light creasing 1 corner of wraps. Else very minor shelfwear. ; Cambridge Companions to Literature; 410 pages; This book presents ancient Greek tragedy in the context of late-twentieth-century reading criticism and performance. The twelve chapters written by seven distinguished scholars cover tragedy as an institution in the civic life of ancient Athens a range of approaches to the surviving plays and changing patterns of reception adaptation and performance from antiquity to the present. . Cambridge University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 30475 ISBN : 0521423511 9780521423519
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Csapo Eric & William Slater
THE CONTEXT OF ANCIENT DRAMA
University of Michigan Press. Good. 1995. Softcover. 0472082752 . Corners a bit edgeworn. Light creasing to spine. Stamped 'used book' to base of textblock. Notes in ink to 4 pp of plates. Some pencil and a bit of ink underlining and notes. ; 480 pages; An easy-to-use guide to the nature and stagecraft of ancient plays . University of Michigan Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 30491 ISBN : 0472082752 9780472082759
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Davies J. K.
DEMOCRACY AND CLASSICAL GREECE
Fontana Press. Very Good-. 1993. Second Edition. Softcover. 0006862519 . Some edgewear to wraps with a bit of colour loss. Pages tanned. ; Fontana History of the Ancient World; 0.88 x 8.25 x 5.42 Inches; 328 pages; The art of classical Greece and its political and philosophical ideas have had a profound influence on Western civilization. It was in the fifth and fourth centuries BC that this culture reached its zenith and it is this period that is examined in this book. The art of classical Greece and its political and philosophical ideas have had a profound influence on Western civilization. It was in the fifth and fourth centuries BC that this culture - material political and intellectual - reached its zenith and it is this period that is examined in this book. . Fontana Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 30514 ISBN : 0006862519 9780006862512
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Silk Michael S.
HOMER: THE ILIAD
Cambridge University Press. Very Good. 1993. Softcover. 0521313023 . Very light shelfwear. ; Landmarks of World Literature; 126 pages; Michael Silk's volume offers a prevalent assessment of The Iliad both for the Homeric specialist and general reader. His starting point is the relationship between Homer's world the eighth century BC and the remote heroic age in which the events of the punitive Greek expedition against Troy were set. He deals with the poem's historical context composition and extensive influence and stresses the coherence and inter-relations of such apparently separate aspects of the poem as its style character-portrayal and ideology. . Cambridge University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 30485 ISBN : 0521313023 9780521313025
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More Jasper
THE LAND OF ITALY
B. T. Batsford. Very Good. 1949. Hardcover. 264 pages . B. T. Batsford hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30497
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Julius Caesar; A. G. Peskett
GAI IULI CAESARIS JULIUS CAESAR: DE BELLO GALLICO COMMENTARIORUM IV. V. With English Notes
Cambridge At the University Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1917. Hardcover. Boards a bit worn. Former owner's name on ffep. Scholar's name to ffep Robert Brown. A bit of pencilling. Front hinge weakening. ; Pitt Press Series; 116 pages . Cambridge At the University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30477
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Owen E. T.
THE STORY OF THE ILIAD As Told in the Iliad
Clarke Irwin & Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1966. Softcover. Spine faded. Some red and black ink underlining to some pages. ; E. T. Owen discusses what makes the Iliad such an enduring work of art - including narrative technique imagery and characterization - and shows how each incident contributes to the overall emotional effect of the poem. ; 248 pages . Clarke, Irwin & Company paperback
Bookseller reference : 30483
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Scullard H. H
FROM THE GRACCHI TO NERO A History of Rome from 133 B. C. to A. D. 68
Methuen & Company. Fair. 1963. Second Edition. Softcover. Creasing and rubbing to wraps. Heavy pencilling. Former owner's bookplate on front cover. Former owner's name on ffep. Old price in marker to inner cover. Fair to good. ; The standard textbook for the central period of Roman history. Covers the decline and fall of the Republic and the establishment of the Pax Romana under the early Principate. ; University Paperbacks 56; 460 pages . Methuen & Company paperback
Bookseller reference : 30516
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Starr Chester G.
THE ROMAN EMPIRE 27 B.C.-A.D. 476 A Study in Survival
Oxford University Press. Very Good. 1982. Softcover. 019503130X . Minor shelfwear. Some pencil underlining. ; 224 pages; In this probing study Starr covers the whole sweep of imperial Roman history analyzing the binding forces of government and the army as initated by Augustus the maturing of these forces under subsequent emperors and the eventual collapse of this network in the western provinces. Not simply a chronological summary the book explores in piquant telling detail the elements and institutions that shaped the empire's history. . Oxford University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 30513 ISBN : 019503130X 9780195031300
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Goodwin William Watson & Charles Burton Gulick Revised by
GREEK GRAMMAR Revised by Charles Burton Gulick
Aristide D. Caratzas. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1992. Softcover. 0892413328 . Light edgewar. Stamped 'used book' to base of textblock. Sticker residue to rear wrap. ; College Classical Series; 472 pages . Aristide D. Caratzas paperback
Bookseller reference : 30519 ISBN : 0892413328 9780892413324
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Benecke E. F. M.
POETARUM LATINORUM INDEX In Usum Versificatorum Nostratum Conflatus
Methuen & Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1894. Hardcover. Some ink underlining with some ink notes to rear inner cover. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover and name to ffep Robert Brown. J. P. Postgate's name in pen also indicating that this was W. S. Headlam's copy. Additional note in pencil to ffep that this was T. F. Higham's copy. Edgeworn boards. Fraying to spine ends. Tear to joint at top of spine ; 166 pages . Methuen & Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30479
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Woodhouse S. C.
ENGLISH-GREEK DICTIONARY A Vocabulary of the Attic Language.
Routledge & Kegan Paul. Good with no dust jacket. 1959. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual stamps call numbers and pocket. Minor fraying to spine ends. Light chipping along spine. ; 2.08 x 8.76 x 5.81 Inches; 1029 pages . Routledge & Kegan Paul hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30520
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Kykkotis I.
MODERN GREEK "Grammar & Self-Educator"
Zeno Publishers. Good with no dust jacket. N.D. Third Edition. Hardcover. Scholar's name to ffep Robert Brown. Some ink underlining and corrections. Pages tanned. ; No date 1950s ; 206 pages . Zeno Publishers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30480
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Plato; Allan Bloom
THE REPUBLIC OF PLATO Translated with Notes and an Interpretive Essay by Allan Bloom
Basic Books Inc. Good. 1968. Softcover. 0465069363 . Some pencil underlining and notes with some highlighting. School stamp to titlepage. ; Long regarded as the most accurate rendering of Plato's Republic that has yet been published this widely acclaimed work is the first strictly literal translation of a timeless classic. Professor Bloom's careful translation and interpretation of The Republic was first published in 1968. In addition to the correct text itself there is also a rich and valuable essay--as well as indexes and a glossary of terms--which will better enable the reader to approach the heart of Plato's intention. ; 487 pages . Basic Books Inc. paperback
Bookseller reference : 30490 ISBN : 0465069363 9780465069361
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Frost Frank J.
GREEK SOCIETY
D. C. Heath & Company. Very Good-. 1997. Fifth Edition. Softcover. 0669416959 . Wraps have light edgewear. Some pencil underlining. ; Social history of Greek society. ; 239 pages . D. C. Heath & Company paperback
Bookseller reference : 30495 ISBN : 0669416959 9780669416954
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Walbank F. W.
THE HELLENISTIC WORLD
Fontana Press. Very Good. 1992. Softcover. 0006861040 . Pages tanned. ; The vast empire that Alexander the Great left at his death in 323 BC has few parallels. For the next three hundred years the Greeks controlled a complex of monarchies and city-states that stretched from the Adriatic Sea to India. Walbank's lucid and authoritative history of that Hellenistic world examines political events describes the different social systems and mores of the people under Greek rule traces important developments in literature and science and discusses the new religious movements. ; Fontana History of the Ancient World; 0.78 x 8.19 x 5.45 Inches; 288 pages . Fontana Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 30503 ISBN : 0006861040 9780006861041
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Kirk G. S.
THE NATURE OF GREEK MYTHS
Penguin Non-Classics. Very Good. 1974. Softcover. 0140135367 . Remainder mark to bottom of textblock. Minor shelfwear. ; A General analysis of the nature of myth is followed by a splendid account of the Greek myths. ; Penguin Religion; 336 pages . Penguin (Non-Classics) paperback
Bookseller reference : 30502 ISBN : 0140135367 9780140135367
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Knight W. F. Jackson
VERGIL Selections from the Eclogues Georgics and Aeneid
George Allen & Unwin Ltd. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1952. Hardcover. School stamp to front inner cover. Former owner's name on ffep. Minor shelfwear. ; The Roman World Series; 115 pages; Brings together three works which have an obvious unity of theme and approach within the larger unity. . George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30512
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Plautus; W. Thomas MacCary & M. M. Willcock Eds.
PLAUTUS: CASINA
Cambridge University Press. Very Good. 1999. Softcover. 0521290228 . Very light bump to lower rear corner. Faint crease to upper corner of wraps. ; Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics; 241 pages; Plautus' Casina is a lively and well composed farce. The plot which concerns the competition of a father and his son for the same girl and the various scurrilous tricks employed in the process gives full scope to Plautus' inventiveness and richly comic language. The editors' aim is to establish the play as one of the liveliest of ancient comedies and in their introduction and notes to make the reader continually aware of the conditions of an actual stage performance. They discuss the background and conventions of Roman comedy and by offering a complete metrical analysis they help the reader to appreciate the original musical structure of the play. The edition is intended primarily for use by students at school and university but will be of value to anyone interested in reading the play in the original. . Cambridge University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 30132 ISBN : 0521290228 9780521290227
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Catullus; R. A. B. Mynors Ed.
CATULLUS C. VALERII CATULLI CARMINA Recognovit Brevique Adnotatione Critica Instruxit R. A. B. Mynors
Oxford Clarendon Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2010. Hardcover. 0198146043 . Digitally reprinted. ; Latin Text with Latin Apparatus ; Oxford Classical Texts Oct Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis Oxoniensis; 136 pages . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30133 ISBN : 0198146043 9780198146049
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Cicero; J. H. Freese
CICERO VI: Pro Quinctio. Pro Roscio Amerino. Pro Roscio Comoedo. the Three Speeches on the Agrarian Law Against Rullus Contra Rullum
Harvard University Press & William Heinemann. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1984. Hardcover. 0674992652 . Book is fine. DJ has small rubbed area to back panel. ; Loeb Classical Library No. 240; Vol. 6; 6.5 X 4.3 X 0.9 inches; 512 pages . Harvard University Press & William Heinemann hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30128 ISBN : 0674992652 9780674992658
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Plautus; David M. Christenson
PLAUTUS: AMPHITRUO
Cambridge University Press. Very Good. 2000. Softcover. 0521459974 . Light pencil marginalia. ; Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics; 352 pages; This is the first edition of Platus' Amphitruo to appear in English for approximately forty years. It contains introductory essays Latin text and a line-by-line commentary. Students will find this an indispensable tool in reading and translating the play which was enormously popular in antiquity and has inspired modern adaptations by Moli�re Giraudoux and Harold Pinter among others. Dr. Christenson makes use of both current critical approaches to theater and traditional classical scholarship to offer many new insights into this delightful comedy. . Cambridge University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 30131 ISBN : 0521459974 9780521459976
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Cicero; D. R. Shackleton Bailey Ed.
CICERO: SELECT LETTERS
Cambridge University Press. Very Good. 2000. Softcover. 0521295246 . Former owner's blindstamp to halftitle. Very minor shelfwear. ; Professor Shackleton Bailey is renowned for his major scholarly editions of Cicero's letters already published by Cambridge University Press. This selection from the complete correspondence is designed specifically for students at universities and in the upper forms at schools and offers them a representative introduction to one of the most varied and most important literary correspondences in any language. In choosing letters for inclusion the editor concentrates on Cicero as a man and writer and on his relationship with his contemporaries but he has also included letters which deal with people and events of special significance in the turbulent political history of the period. The edition includes an introduction the text of the letters with critical notes and a commentary which gives help with linguistic problems as well as elucidating the historical and social background. ; Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics; 234 pages; The Adelphoe The Brothers of Terence is a Latin adaptation of a comedy of the same name by the Greek comic playwright Menander. The theme of the play is the perennially interesting question of the relationship between the generations and the proper way to bring up a son. In the introduction Mr Martin considers Terence in the context of Roman comedy generally and discusses the background of the Adelphoe. There is also a section on metre and scansion and a short analysis of the textual tradition. The full and detailed commentary besides elucidating the text seeks at all times to help the reader to understand the work as a play to be enjoyed. The edition is intended for use by students at school and university and for anyone wishing to read and appreciate the play in the original. . Cambridge University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 30130 ISBN : 0521295246 9780521295246
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Propertius; E. A. Barber Ed.
SEXTI PROPERTI PROPERTIUS CARMINA Recognovit Brevique Adnotatione Critica Instruxit E. A. Barber. Editio Altera
Oxford Clarendon Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2010. Hardcover. 0198146302 . Book is fine. Digitally reprinted. ; Latin Text with Latin Apparatus ; Oxford Classical Texts Oct Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis; 188 pages . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30134 ISBN : 0198146302 9780198146308
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Aeschylus; Alan H. Sommerstein Ed.
AESCHYLUS: EUMENIDES
Cambridge University Press. Very Good. 1989. Softcover. 0521284309 . Spine creased. Top of textblock foxed. Else light shelfwear. ; Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics; 324 pages; Sommerstein 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. Of all Athenian tragic dramas Eumenides is most consciously designed to be relevant to the situation of the Athenian state at the time of its performance 458 B.C. and seems to have contained daring innovations both in technique and in ideas. The introduction and commentary to this edition seek to bring out how Aeschylus shaped to his purpose the legends he inherited and ended the tragic story of Agamemnon's family in a celebration of Athenian civic unity and justice. The commentary also pays attention to the linguistic metrical and textual problems to be encountered by the reader. . Cambridge University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 30135 ISBN : 0521284309 9780521284301
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Demosthenes; C. Carey & R. A. Reid Eds.
DEMOSTHENES: SELECTED PRIVATE SPEECHES
Cambridge University Press. Very Good-. 1997. Softcover. 0521283736 . Some shelfwear. Spine creased. Heavy pencil notes to Greek text about 20 pages. Else VG. ; Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics; 252 pages; 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 Carey and Dr Reid seek primarily to treat the speeches using their commentary to shed light on how well the speeches perform their function. The speeches have also been chosen for their value as documents of Athenian law commerce and private life. The commentary explains as far as possible any obscurities in these fields and also deals with matters of linguistic interest. While intended mainly for undergraduates and students in the upper forms of schools the book will be of interest to all classical scholars. The introduction which provides a brief survey of the Athenian legal system and the trade of the speechwriter requires no knowledge of Greek and should interest students of classical culture and literature in translation. . Cambridge University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 30148 ISBN : 0521283736 9780521283731
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Tacitus; Cynthia Damon Eds
TACITUS: HISTORIES Book I
Cambridge University Press. Very Good. 2005. Softcover. 0521578221 . Remainder mark to base of textblock black marker line. Faint crease to upper corner of front wrap. Digitally reprinted. ; As the first historical work by Rome's greatest historian the Histories hold a crucial place in the study of Latin literature. Book I covers the beginning of the infamous "Year of the Four Emperors" 69 c. E. which brought imperial Rome to the brink of destruction after the demise of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Its account of the ensuing power struggles is unmatched for detail and interest. This edition includes the Latin text and provides a complete commentary accessible to students of intermediate level as well as an extensive introduction discussing historical literary and stylistic issues. ; Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics; 324 pages . Cambridge University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 30146 ISBN : 0521578221 9780521578226
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Virgil; Philip Hardie Ed.
VIRGIL: AENEID Book IX 9
Cambridge University Press. Near Fine. 2000. Softcover. 052135952X . Very minor shelfwear else fine. ; Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics; 268 pages; This is the first major single-volume edition in English of Book IX of Virgil's Aeneid a pivotal part of the poem that contains the nocturnal interlude of the ill-fated expedition of the young Trojans Nisus and Euryalus. The volume includes a detailed linguistic and thematic commentary on the text and an introduction consisting of a series of interpretative essays on the book. It offers invaluable help to students of Virgil and will also be of interest to professional scholars of Latin literature. . Cambridge University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 30145 ISBN : 052135952X 9780521359528
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