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Euripides: Bacchae
This is a commentary on "Bacchae", by Euripides. It takes account of the studies made on the play since it was written, as well as the discoveries made about the cult of Dionysus. …
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 …
Egeria's Travels
This eye-witness account of the holy places and liturgy of the Holy Land describes the experience of a Spanish pilgrim who visited Jerusalem fifty years after the reign of …
Jose Diaz-Fernandez
El Blocao, one of the most distinguished examples of avant-garde, anti-colonialist prose produced in Spain, is a collection of seven short stories parodying the highly popular …
Calderon: Love is no laughing matter
Although Calderon's comedy has received rather less attention than the other genres in which he excelled, it is widely acknowledged that his comic plays are inrivalled among his …
Valle-Inclan: The Captain's Daughter and the Dead Man's Finery
Ramon del Valle-Inclan is one of Spain's greatest dramatists. His particular legacy is theesperpento, a satirical mode combining tragedy and farce and characterised by its use of …
Juvenal: Satires Book IV
Juvenal's fourth book of Satires consists of three poems which are all concerned with contentment in various forms. The poet adopts a more resigned and philosophical tone, unlike …
Greek Personal Religion: A Reader
The relationship between the individual and the divine in ancient Greece is a complex one, which has tended to be neglected in favour of studies of state religion, festivals, …
Augustine: The City of God Book V
This edition of St Augustine's The City of God (De Civitate Dei) is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most …
Augustine: Soliloquies and Immortality of the Soul
Augustine intended the Soliloquies and the Immortality of the Soul to form a single book. For those who are unacquainted with Augustine, it is a good book with which to begin. It …
Xenophon: Symposium
The Symposium that Xenophon wrote has lived in the shadow of the more famous one by Plato, so much so that it has not received a full commentary in English for well over a hundred …
Studies on Scarab Seals Volume 1
The two volumes Studies on Scarab Seals are the most authoritive yet written on the classification and chronology of scarab styles, and cover the period 2200-1550 BC. Volume I …