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This influential edition of Pindar by the American classicist Basil L. Gildersleeve (1831-1924) contains a brilliant and accessible introduction that outlines the poet's life and work. The odes themselves appear in the original Greek and are accompanied by extensive notes explaining their content and grammatical structures.

Begun by Walter Headlam (1866-1908) and completed by Alfred Pearson after Headlam's early death, this edition of Agamemnon was first published in 1910. To Headlam's scrupulous translation and substantial introduction Pearson added a detailed commentary and explanatory notes. The result is a text that is both comprehensive and accessible.

Miller's Melanges de Litterature Grecque (1867), a collection of Greek lexicographical texts, proverbs and hymns, includes sections from the Etymologicum Genuinum and the Etymologicum Parvum and sayings from authors such as Zenobius, Didymus of Alexandria, and Aristophanes of Byzantium. It made many of these texts available for the first time.

Stallbaum's Eustathii Commentarii ad Homeri Iliadem (1827-1830) contains the Greek text of Eustathius of Thessalonica's twelfth-century commentary on Homer's Iliad. Volume 1 contains books 1-4 of the commentary. It is perhaps the most important work of medieval Homeric scholarship and a rich source of ancient Homeric scholia.

Gladstone's three-volume work represents an enthusiastic and exhaustive account of the history, culture, and literature of Homer and his age. Volume 1 establishes Homer's modern-day significance and creates an ethnography of his time, which Gladstone situates in relationship to the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Published in five volumes between 1896 and 1909, this book separates Greek religious practice from its corresponding mythology. Focusing on the most popular gods, Farnell describes their cults, monuments and ideal types. Volume 1 focuses on early Greek religion and the cults of Cronos, Zeus, Hera and Athena.

Sturz published his edition of the tenth-century Greek lexical encyclopaedia, the Etymologicum Gudianum, in 1818. It is a rich source of citations from lost works of antiquity and a landmark of medieval encyclopaedism. This first complete edition was a key resource for generations of classicists, Byzantinists and medievalists.

Sir Richard Jebb's edition of Bacchylides' Odes, published in 1905, remains an authoritative work today. This edition contains an introductory essay and a section on metre. The text itself is given with a parallel English translation, textual collation and explanatory notes, and there is a vocabulary list and index.

Published in 1887, at a time when the value of some Greek letters was not universally agreed, and when excavation was regularly providing new materials for study, this innovative and important book, which set standards of classification and interpretation, was widely welcomed as a tool for research.

The second volume of E. S. Robert's work, written with E. A. Gardner and published in 1905, focuses on the inscriptions found in Attica, and especially Athens. Each is given in transcription, with suggested restorations and the reproduction of unusual characters where the value is not certain, and with full explanatory notes.

Joseph B. Mayor's edition of Cicero's De Natura Deorum (1880-1885) presents Cicero's fascinating theological dialogue with a full introduction and complete commentary. Set against the backdrop of the competing Roman schools of philosophy, Cicero's ambitious work explores the nature of both divine creation and human philosophical enquiry.

This is the first volume (first published in 1784) of William Mitford's History of Greece, covering the period from the nation's legendary foundations, including the Trojan War and the first Olympiad, to the end of the first Peloponnesian War in 445 BCE.

Illustrating how our knowledge of Latin has advanced over time, Lindsay's enduring 1894 work draws on earlier studies of Latin philology and phonology. The book addresses the complex history of Latin grammar, covering areas including the language's formation of the various parts of speech, its declensions and its pronunciation changes.

Published in two volumes in 1845 and 1850, Fasti Romani, Henry Fynes Clinton's chronological history of the Roman Empire, made an important contribution to the study of the ancient world. Clinton's strict methodological reading of the sources established high standards for historical research in classical studies.

German classical philologist Ribbeck's second edition of Virgil's works was published in Leipzig, 1894-1895. Solely a critical edition, it lacks textual commentary. It comprises four parts in two volumes: Volume 1 contains the Eclogues and Georgics, and Aeneid, Books 1-6.

German classical philologist Ribbeck's second edition of Virgil's works was published in Leipzig, 1894-1895. Solely a critical edition, it lacks textual commentary. It comprises four parts in two volumes: Volume 2 contains the Aeneid, Books 7-12 and Appendix Vergiliana, giving texts of other poems assigned to the Virgilian canon.

Samuel Butler's four-volume edition of the Tragedies of Aeschylus draws upon the monumental 1663 Latin commentary edition by Thomas Stanley. Based upon Stanley's own notes and translations, Butler's Greek and Latin edition distils the early English scholarship on Aeschylus. This third volume (1812) contains the Choephori and Eumenides.

Samuel Butler's four-volume edition of the Tragedies of Aeschylus draws upon the monumental 1663 Latin commentary edition by Thomas Stanley. Based upon Stanley's own notes and translations, Butler's Greek and Latin edition distils the early English scholarship on Aeschylus. This first volume (1809) contains Prometheus Bound and The Suppliants.

Samuel Butler's four-volume edition of Aeschylus' Tragedies draws upon the monumental 1663 Latin commentary of Thomas Stanley. Based upon Stanley's notes and translations, Butler's Greek and Latin edition distils the early English scholarship on Aeschylus. This second part of the fourth volume contains attributed fragments and an index.

Die Geburt der Tragoedie (1872) is one of the most important philosophical texts of the modern period. Nietzsche traces the origins of Greek tragedy in the encounter between the Dionysian and the Apollonian, and suggests that the music of Richard Wagner has a power to overcome this dichotomy.

First published between 1839 and 1851, this is still widely considered to be the definitive collection of ancient Greek proverbs and ranks among the outstanding works of nineteenth-century classical scholarship. Volume 1 contains texts by Zenobius, Diogenianus, Plutarchus, and Gregorius Cyprius, with critical apparatus and Latin commentary.

Muller's translation of and commentary on Aeschylus' play The Eumenides was published in 1833. The play is a reenactment of the Greek legend of the trial of Agamemnon's son Orestes. The role of the chorus and the significance of the costumes are explored, and the composition of the play explored.

Karl Muller (1813-1894) published this monumental and still unrivalled collection of the surviving fragments of Greek historical works in Paris between 1841 and 1872. Volume 1 contains histories by Hecataeus, Charon of Lampascus, and Apollodorus of Athens.

Karl Muller (1813-1894) published this monumental and still unrivalled collection of the surviving fragments of Greek historical works in Paris between 1841 and 1872. Volume 2, published in 1843, includes the histories of Diodorus Siculus, Polybius, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus.

Karl Muller (1813-1894) published this monumental and still unrivalled collection of the surviving fragments of Greek historical works in Paris between 1841 and 1872. Volume 3, published in 1849, includes works of the period from 247 BCE until the Roman conquest in 146 BCE.

Karl Muller (1813-1894) published this monumental and still unrivalled collection of the surviving fragments of Greek historical works in Paris between 1841 and 1872. Volume 4, published in 1851, runs from 306 CE until 610 CE, and includes the first modern edition of John of Antioch's writings.

Karl Muller (1813-1894) published this monumental and still unrivalled collection of the surviving fragments of Greek historical works in Paris between 1841 and 1872. The final volume of his Fragmenta contains fragments of Greek and Byzantine historians, and some Greek and Syrian works preserved in Armenian writings.

Henry John Roby (1830-1915) was a Cambridge-educated classicist specialising in Roman Law. First published in 1884, this volume discusses the historical and legal context of Justinian's Digesta and provides the Latin text of De Usufructu (one of the titles from the Digesta) with detailed close textual analysis.

William Young Sellar (1825-1890) was a classical scholar specialising in the analysis of Roman poetry. This volume, first published posthumously in 1891, discusses the forms and development of Roman poetry in the reign of Augustus, and was considered the standard reference for the development of Augustan Roman poetry.

Emil Baehrens published this text and commentary of the first-century BCE Latin poet Catullus between 1876 and 1885. It was considered groundbreaking for its analysis of the medieval manuscripts of the poems, and although many editions have since been published, Baehrens' work is still of interest to scholars.