The empire that the Athenians established in the years after 478 BC was an entirely new phenomenon in the history of Greece, and the basis of much of the brilliant development of Athenian culture in t
This volume, originally published in 1978, offers some 800-850 lines ofthe 'Anabasis' in Greek with English summaries of the interveningpassages to give an idea of the whole of Xenophon's exciting adv
The adoption of agriculture is often described as one of the most fundamental revolutions in human history, the starting point for urbanisation and specialisation. More recently the structure of the N
Departing from other recent studies of the British queen and the revolt against Rome in AD 60-61, Johnson (classics, U. of Newcastle, Australia) focuses narrowly on the accounts by Tacitus in Annals B
The poetry of Alexandr Blok (1880-1921) marks the highest achievement of that fertile period in Russian literary history chiefly identified with the Symbolist movement. The aim of this book is to conv
Part of a four-unit course designed for post-beginners in Greek and other learners wishing to consolidate their reading skills. Particular attention is paid to idiomatic usage, word order and the use
Offers an introduction to Homer's poem which sees it as rooted in a particular culture with its own narrative and thematic conventions, but it opposes the trends of scholarship which place it in a str
The first book of Tacitus' Annals is concerned with the reign of Tiberius and with Roman campaigns in Germany. Norma Miller's useful edition, first published in the Methuen Classics series (1959), rem
This book examines the poetry of Statius (c. 40-96 AD), in relation to significant social and cultural issues of his day, in particular shifting attitudes to Hellenism, gender and Roman imperialism. I
A fictional account of one woman's experience following the arrest of her son during the Yezhov purges. Written in 1939-40 but not published in the Soviet Union until 1988, the introduction tells the
In the wake of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, poets of the seventh and sixth centuries BC composed epics which covered other parts of the Trojan War story or different areas of Greek mythology. Quotations
Offers answers to the exercises that form a substantial part of the Latin language textbook, "Advanced Latin: Materials for A2 and Pre-U". This book includes 24 translation/comprehension exercises, ba
National identity has been studied through a range of different types of evidence - historical, archaeological, linguistic and most recently genetic. This has caused another set of problems of interdi
This frequently reprinted volume is the 'sine qua non' for all whowould attempt to write faultless classical Latin Prose. It is impressively detailed in explaining syntactical nuances, in its exemplif
Catullus, who lived from about 84 to 54 BC, was one of ancient Rome’s most gifted, versatile and passionate poets. Living at a time of radical social change at the end of the Roman Republic, he belong
Edwards (patristics, Oxford U.) examines four third-century Romans who would have called themselves philosophers--Plotinus, Longinus, Porphyry, and Iamblichus--and the cultural and intellectual milieu
The concept of social evolution in its modern form became widespread 250 years ago as part of the Enlightenment, and yet it still structures the thinking of academics, politicians and the public in a
This selection from Caesar's Gallic War, intended for use in schools, includes the following passages in Latin: Book IV, chapters 20-36, and Book V, chapters 8-23. These cover Caesar's expeditions to
The themes of hospitality and recognition run through both the Greek classics and the Bible, however they are rarely compared, either as literary topoi or as a reflection of a shared set of societal s
