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  • af R. G. Ussher
    672,95 kr.

    Philoctetes is a tragedy of surpassing human interest, portraying relationships against a background of terrible suffering and mean intrigue. This edition provides the Greek text with facing translation; a commentary elucidating the action; and an Introduction with analysis of the play, and notes on its background and manuscript tradition.

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    583,95 kr.

    Ovid's poetical career reached its climax in his masterpiece, the Metamorphoses. This edition of Books I-IV offers the Latin text with facing translation and commentary. The notes trace Ovid's sources and discuss how and why he adapted them. The history of Ovid's influence on his successors in literature and art is also extensively treated.

  • af Donald E. Hill
    586,95 kr.

    This volume completes this distinguished edition of Metamorphoses . This volume completes Donald Hills distinguished edition to the Metamorphoses. Of the pevious volume it was said: It is all we could hope for, with excellent translation, fuller understanding from the notes and an extensive bibliography.

  • af P. G. Walsh
    682,95 - 2.032,95 kr.

    Latin text with facing translation plus notes and commentary.

  • af P. G. Walsh
    672,95 kr.

    Livy is a popular author in schools and universities in all areas of the English speaking world.

  • af M. Edwards
    2.007,95 kr.

    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 so, for the best of them have great vitality.

  • af P. G. Walsh
    682,95 kr.

    Livy is a popular author in schools and universities in all areas of the English speaking world.

  • af David C. A. Shotter
    682,95 kr.

    The fourth book of Tacitus' Annals recounts one of the most turbulent periods of Tiberius' reign: the climax of the conflict between the emperor and Agrippina's family. This edition offers the Latin text with a new facing translation, commentary and a group of introductory essays which highlight the book's main themes and personalities.

  • - Roman History 53.1-55.9
    af Cassius Cocceianus Dio & John Rich
    2.032,95 kr.

    Dio Cassius' Roman History contains the fullest surviving account of the reign of Augustus. This edition of Books 53-55 covers the years 28-5 BC and includes Dio's extended discussion of the constitutional settlement of 27 BC and the imperial system it inaugurated. Ancient Greek text with facing translation, introduction and commentary.

  • af P. G. Walsh
    672,95 kr.

    In The City of God (De Civitate Dei), St Augustine replies to the pagans, who attributed the recent sack of Rome (AD410), to the Christian religion and its prohibition of the worship of the pagan gods. This edition of Books I & II provides Latin text with facing-page translation, introduction and commentary.

  • af A. E. Douglas
    576,95 kr.

    Recent classical scholarship has seen a revived interest in 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 approachable. Book I discusses whether or not death is an evil. Latin text with translation and commentary.

  • af Augustine
    303,95 kr.

    This edition of Augustine's The City of God is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this influential document. Books VI and VII focus on the figure of Terentius Varro, a man revered by Augustine's pagan contemporaries. Latin text with facing translation, introduction and commentary.

  • af Andrew Brown & Sophocles
    672,95 kr.

    Sophocles' Antigone is among the greatest of all works of Greek literature, and is often the play read first by those beginning to study Greek tragedy. This edition offers the text with facing translation and commentary, and an introduction including an account of the myth, a survey of the main interpretative issues, and a bibliography.

  • af Professor R. W. Sharples
    672,95 kr.

    Plato's Meno 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 Plato arrived at that theory. Greek text with facing translation, introduction and commentary.

  • af P. G. Walsh
    672,95 - 2.007,95 kr.

    Peter Walsh's acclaimed edition of The City of God is the only one in English with a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this influential work. In Books XI-XII, Augustine turns from attack to defence, initiating his apology for the Christian faith. Latin text with facing translation, introduction and commentary.

  • af Stephen Usher
    672,95 kr.

    Universally recognised as the greatest speech by the finest of the Attic Orators, On the Crown is Demosthenes' vindication of his lifelong devotion to Athenian primacy among the Greek states and opposition to the advance of Philip II of Macedon. This edition presents the Greek text with facing translation, introduction and a full commentary.

  • af Edith Hall
    579,95 kr.

    As the earliest surviving European drama, Persians is of incalculable interest to students of ancient literature. This edition offers facing translation, commentary and notes that focus on the visual and aural effects Aeschylus created, his extraordinarily rich imagery, and the play's unique contribution to Athenian democratic ideology.

  • af John Godwin
    576,95 kr.

    Book IV of Lucretius' great philosophical poem deals mainly with the psychology of sensation ad thought. The heart of this book is a new text, incorporating the latest scholarship on the text of Lucretius, with a clear prose facing translation. The commentary concentrates on the thought of the text (relating it to other philosophers beside Epicurus) and the poetry of the Latin, placing the text in relation to Roman literature in general, and attempting to demonstrate the poetic genius of Lucretius. The introduction deals with the didactic tradition in ancient literature and Lucretius' place in it, the structure of De Rerum Natura, the salient features of the philosophy of Epicurus and the transmission of the text.

  • af Aristophanes
    461,95 kr.

    Produced in 405 BC, Frogs contains the earliest sustained piece of literary criticism in the Western tradition - the contest for the throne of tragedy between Euripides and Aeschylus. This edition is the first to combine a reliable English translation of Frogs with a full explanatory commentary; it also includes a freshly constituted Greek text.

  • af John Richardson
    525,95 kr.

    Iberike was written in the second century AD as part of Appian's Roman History series, and deals with the Romans' wars in the Iberian peninsula from the third to the first centuries BC. This scholarly edition presents the Greek text with facing-page English translation and extensive notes and commentary.

  • af D. J. Conacher
    617,95 kr.

    Alcestis is the only tragedy known to have been produced in the position usually allotted (at the Athenian tragic festivals) to the semi-comic satyr-play. Although it has a happy ending, opinions differ widely on the meaning of this beautifully constructed little masterpiece. Greek text with facing translation, introduction and commentary.

  • af Peter Howell
    522,95 kr.

    Text with translation, commentary and notes.

  • af Augustine
    767,95 kr.

    The volume continues P. G. Walsh's admired translation with commentary of Augustine's City of God. Books I-XIV have been published in eight earlier volumes between 2003 and 2016, and this ninth volume in the collection looks at books XV and XVI.

  • af England, from 1964 to 2000.) Maclennan, Keith (Head of Classics at Rugby School, mfl.
    672,95 kr.

    First new translation in 30 years and comprehensive commentary for over a century

  • af Christopher J. Rowe
    672,95 kr.

    The dating of the Phaedrus has been hotly debated: sometimes it has been counted among Plato's earliest works; sometimes with the dialogues of the 'middle' period (Phaedo, Symposium, Republic); sometimes with the late works (e.g. Sophist, Statesman).

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    603,95 kr.

    Satyric is the most thinly attested genre of Greek drama, but it appears to have been the oldest and according to Aristotle formative for tragedy.

  • af M. Edwards
    584,95 kr.

    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 so, for the best of them have great vitality.

  •  
    687,95 kr.

    The play's title figure has long held a central place in the 'libertarian' stream of Western culture, but controversies continue to swirl about the work and its hero. This volume presents the original Greek text with facing-page translation, commentary and notes.

  • - Fragments from the Tragedies with Selected Testimonia
     
    585,95 kr.

    The first of two volumes presenting all the remnants of tragedies produced by contemporaries and successors of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Greek texts and sources are accompanied by English translations, historical background, detailed explanatory notes and bibliographies. Volume 1 includes amongst others Phrynichus, Aristarchus, Ion, Achaeus, Sophocles' son Iophon, Agathon and the doubtful cases of Neophron and Critias.

  •  
    682,95 kr.

    Book V of Herodotus' Histories begins the run-up to the Persian Wars of 490-479 B.C. with Persia's conquest of coastal Thrace after the Scythian expedition and the beginning of the Ionian Revolt against Persia, to which digressions on Sparta and Athens at the end of the sixth century are attached.

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