The Odyssey, besides being one of the world’s first and best adventure stories, is a poem of great subtlety, rich in irony and sophisticated characterisation. The poet’s art is …
Despite his enduring popularity, Martial has recently suffered from serious critical neglect. The present work is the first edition of selections from Martial to be published for …
Book VI of Livy’s Ab urbe condita covers the history of Rome from 390 to 367 BC, a period during which the city, while in the process of recovering from being sacked by the Gauls, …
Book 1 of De Natura Deorum exhibits in a nutshell Cicero's philosophical method, with the prior part stating the case for Epicurean theology, the latter (rather longer) part …
Professor Sommerstein presents here a freshly constituted text, with introduction and commentary, of Eumenides, the final play in Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy.
This is the first full-scale commentary on poems by Theocritus since Gow’s edition of 1950, and the first to exploit the recent revolution in the study of Hellenistic and Roman …
Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus is his most neglected work - there has not been an English-language commentary in over a century - and yet it is arguably his most original. …
The first-century emperor Claudius did not leave the fledgling Roman Empire as he had found it: his contribution was to turn its developing institutions into an imperial tradition. …
Professor Shackleton Bailey is renowned for his major scholarly editions of Cicero’s letters already published by Cambridge University Press. This selection from the complete …
The twenty-fourth book of the Iliad - the account of Priam’s ransoming of Hector’s body from Achilles - is one of the masterpieces of world literature, a work of interest to a far …
