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Plutarch's "Lives of Galba and Otho" constitute the earliest surviving history of the shocking events that shook the Roman Empire in AD 68 and 69 - the rebellions against Nero, his …

This text contains extracts in Greek language for the purposes of translation, which are accompanied by translation and commentary in English.

Iliad VI makes ideal reading for a student approaching the epic for the first time. Amongst other episodes it includes the meeting of Diomedes and Glaukos in battle, which throws …

Plato's Symposium is the most literary of all his works and one which all students of classics are likely to want to read whether or not they are studying Plato's philosophy. But …

This edition of the orator Demosthenes' speech On the Crown includes introduction, the Greek text, commentary and useful essays on such topics as the constitution of the …

Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1841–1905) was an influential Greek scholar and politician. First published in 1907, as the second edition of an 1873 original, this book contains a …

Sophocles’ Trachiniae is, in the editor's words, ‘a subtle and sophisticated play about primitive emotions’. It is also a play which presents problems to a modern audience. Making …

Euripides' "Cyclops" is the only complete surviving example of a Satyric drama. The Satyr-play drama has a nature entirely of its own, neither tragic nor comic, but something …

The second book of Thucydides’ history is of particular literary interest, containing as it does such important sections as the funeral oration, the account of the plague at Athens …

This work, first published in 1822, was edited by Peter Paul Dobree (1782–1825) who had been entrusted with the literary remains of the eminent classical scholar Richard Porson …