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One of the seven plays of Sophocles available in an affordable paperback edition

This study presents a collection of the influential Greek philosophical texts which provide a broad cross-section of ancient Greek thought. Full notes on the translation and the philosophical content are provided.

This edition of Plato's "Crito" aims to provide an up-to-date literary and philosophical analysis. It also sets out to provide an introduction, not only to the social and philosophical world of Classical Greece, but also to the personality of one of its greatest thinkers.

This useful edition includes Ferguson's introduction to the history of Greek theatre along with full notes and vocabulary.

This edition of Herodotus' "Histories: Book 1" contains an introduction, text and annotation on matters of language and content. There is also an explanatory index of historical and geographical names.

A school/university student edition of "Thucydides: Book I" that consists of Greek text, philological notes and indexes. It presents introduction and bibliography by Thomas Weidemann, covering the context and aims of the work and giving essential background to the events described.

This is an edition of Book VI of Thucydides. Its notes aim to assist translation, draw attention to features of language and style characteristic of the author, make explicit what the author took for granted in his original audience and comment on the historical background.

This edition provides the commentary and student aids lacking in largervolumes on Homer's work, containing a full Introduction designed tohighlight the most important features of the text. The Greek text isprinted with a facing literal English translation intended to help beginners to construe the Greek. There is also afull vocabulary list.

This school edition of passages from two plays of Euripides, originally published by Macmillan, is furnished with introduction, notes, vocabulary and useful summaries of the lines and choruses omitted. The "Helen" in particular is suitable for use at GCSE level.

In the BRISTOL CLASSICAL PRESS GREEK TEXTS series. Lysias was one of the leading exponents of the art of speech-writing in late fifth and early fourth century Athens. These five examples of his work cover a range of cases and offer an insight into Athenian society.

"The Odyssey" tells the story of the long and painful return of Odysseus from the Trojan War to his homeland of Ithaka. This new translation by Martin Hammond complements his translation of "The Iliad". It aims to capture as closely as possible both the simplicity and the intensity of Homer's epic.

This volume, originally published in 1978, offers some 800-850 lines ofthe 'Anabasis' in Greek with English summaries of the interveningpassages to give an idea of the whole of Xenophon's exciting adventure. Notes assist with content and language; theyassume only basic grammatical knowledge. The edition includes a consolidatedvocabulary.

This selection of the poems of Theocritus illustrates his creative genius and rare powers of observation. Dover's introduction and notes offer insights into both the writing and the life and times of the poet.

This commentary is intended as an introduction to "Herodotus Book Six". It is a new edition which replaces that of E.S. Schuckburgh's 1889 version. Shuckburgh's Greek text is reproduced, but the book also includes a new introduction and up-to-date bibliography.

Two versions of Euripides' masterpiece in a new verse translation by Andy Hinds, with Martine Cuypers

This edition provides a full and representative selection of all early Greek lyric (omitting Pindar, who requires his own volume), elegiac and iambic poetry. The extensive commentary gives assistance with matters of dialect and language, Homeric and Hesiodic comparisons, interpretation, content and metre