’Whoever wishes to hear about, and to know about, kings and heirs, about who first ruled England and which kings it had,......more
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Horace was one of the greatest poets during the reign of Augustus ......more
Thomas Carlyle’s Past and Present (1843) was a prophetic warning of impending disaster for mid-Victorian Britain that wa......more
’Who would you say knows himself?’ In 399 BCE Socrates was tried in Athens on charges of irreligion and corruption of th......more
Sophocles’ Women of Trachis is a play that resonates with the complexity of life, expressing happiness entwined with des......more
’If something else can capture your attention Then it’s not love, but just a trivial passion - Love is that flame which,......more
Dating from around the 8th century BC, The Iliad is a prime example of an epic narrative poem and is one of Western lite......more
The Production of King Oedipus is a masterful behind-the-scenes account of the production of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex at t......more
Xenophon was acknowledged in Antiquity as a philosopher, a historian (third in the triad of great Classical historians, ......more
Lysistrata is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC. It is a comic......more
Homer’s mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are widely considered to be two of the most......more
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Quand Mme de La Fayette publia son roman de Za de, Segrais, sous le nom duquel le livre devait para tre, pria le savant ......more
Peu de nations ont t aussi prouv es par le sort que la nation hell ne. Apr s avoir subi l invasion des Perses, qu elle r......more
Ovid’s Metamorphoses is one of the most influential works of Western literature, inspiring artists and writers from Titi......more
Need some help with Greek literature? At last a reader-friendly version of this classic Greek tragedy in Modern English ......more
The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius (3rd Cent. - 3rd Cent.) The story of how Jason and a group of famous heroes of Greece......more
Oedipus at Colonus is the third in Sophocles’ trilogy of plays about the famous king of Thebes and his unhappy family. I......more
Available here as an independent work, F. Storr s excellent translation of Oedipus the King turns Sophocles drama into ......more
Virgil’s affectionate poem of the land brings us the disappointments as well as the rewards of the countryman’s year-rou......more
A key figure in the development of Western literature, the Greek poet Theocritus of Syracuse, was the inventor of "bucol......more
This volume provides, in translation, the principal texts of literary criticism, including Aristotle’s Poetics, Horace’s......more
A paperback anthology of essential Greek and Latin texts with facing English translations. This selection of lapidary nu......more
We are all classicists--we come into touch with the classics on a daily basis: in our culture, politics, medicine, archi......more
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timel......more
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timel......more