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"Pity Transformed" is an examination of how pity was imagined and expressed in classical antiquity. It pays particular attention to the ways in which the pity of the Greeks and …
Photius was a ninth-century patriarch of Constantinople who compiled summaries of 280 books he had read, known at the Bibliotheca. It deals with Attic, Hellenistic, Roman imperial …
Plato's best-known cosmological dialogues are almost always discussed in a topical manner. The "Timaeus" is reduced to its theological and scientific doctrines; the Atlantis story …
This scholarly edition consists of the Latin text, with translation and detailed commentary, of a sequence of epigrams from the "Anthologia Latina" (Shackleton Bailey 78-188). An …
This radical series shows how Classical ideas and material have helped to shape the modern world. The interdisciplinary and intercultural approach makes stimulating reading for …
This is a series of short polemical books on specific topics of current interest in the study of the Classical world. In "Leisured Resistance", Michael Dewar examines the varied …
Peter Jones demystifies the Classics in this personal introduction to a subject often feared by those who do not understand Greek or Latin.