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Euripides: Heracles
In this often neglected play, Euripides explores the contrast between myth and reality by portraying the story of Heracles' murder of his wife and children. In treating this act …
Euripides: Suppliant Women
A group of Argive women has come to Eleusis to ask King Theseus and his city of Athens to bring about the burial of their sons who are being denied it by their Theban conquerors. …
Thucydides: History Book II
This edition of Book II, the book in which Thucydides’ main narrative of the Peloponnesian war begins, contains an introduction, a Greek text, an English translation, and a …
Homer: Iliad VIII and IX
Books VIII &IX are crucial to the structure of the Iliad, and, while both of them have been extensively discussed in the Unitarian/Analyst debate, neither has perhaps received …
Aristophanes: Frogs
Aristophanes' "Frogs" was produced in 405BC, shortly after the deaths of two great veteran Athenian tragic dramatists Euripides and Sophocles. This edition combines an English …
Greek Orators IV: Andocides
Rational persuasion and appeal to an audience's emotions are elements of most literature, but they are found in their purest form in oratory. The speeches written by the Greek …
Plato: Republic 1–2.368c4
Republic, Plato's best known and most frequently read dialogue, although receiving a flood of translations and philosophical analysis over the last 100 years, has in recent times …
Plutarch: Lives of Aristeides and Cato
Plutarch's Lives have always attracted a large number of admirers, particularly because of his pragmatic concern with ethics and politics. But Plutarch intended his Lives to be …
Aristotle: On Sleep and Dreams
This work is designed to make Aristotle's three essays on sleep and dreams (De Somno et Vigilia, De Insomniis and De Divinatione per Somnum) accessible in translation to modern …
Thucydides: History Books IV.1–V.24
With this volume, P. J. Rhodes completes his edition of Thucydides' books on the Archidamian War, providing an Introduction (on Thucydides' history and on the Peloponnesian War), …
Pindar: Selected Odes
Pindar's Odes were composed in the first instance to commemorate athletic victories, examining how the moments of heroic achievement are inevitably tempered by our mortal families. …
Plutarch: Themistocles
The commentary in this edition of one of Plutarchs Lives concentrates on the historical aspects of the work and includes much detailed comparison of Plutarch's narrative with …