Language & Literature

ISBN: 9781407306322
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
The period known as the mid-Republic, ranging roughly from the beginning of the second Punic War to tribunate and murder of Tiberius Gracchus in 133BC, was a time of great expansion in the Roman world. In order to comprehend better the nature o... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780856688973
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: A & P CLASSICS TITLES
'What reason has an educated man for going to the theatre, except to see Menander'? Thus the judgment of Aristophanes of Byzantium, and in later antiquity the social comedies of Menander ranked second in popularity only to the epics of Homer. Y... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780856688331
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: A & P CLASSICS TITLES
'What reason has an educated man for going to the theatre, except to see Menander'? Thus the judgment of Aristophanes of Byzantium, and in later antiquity the social comedies of Menander ranked second in popularity only to the epics of Homer. Y... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780856685835
Published by : Aris & Phillips
In the third and final book which he wrote about his campaigns in the Civil War, Caesar tells the story of his fight with Pompey in 48 B.C. which ended in the rout of the latter at Pharsalus, perhaps Caesar's most notable military victory. The ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780905205526
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
Series: ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs
Volume: 49
Among the works of the fifth-century BC lyric poet Bacchylides are epinician odes celebrating victors in the cycle of Greek Games, which were occasions of major political, cultural and religious significance in the Greek world. Fourteen of Bac... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780905205533
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
Series: ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs
Volume: 50
Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar 14 contains (in revised, usually enlarged, and annotated form) papers presented at Langford Seminars of the Department of Classics of The Florida State University over the years 2004 to 2008, together... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780856688447
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Following the success of Horace's Odes and the Mystery of Do-Re-Mi in which he proposed that Horace's Odes were truly carmina (songs), Stuart Lyons further explores the orality of the Odes in both the Augustan Age and their early medieval rec... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905125371
Published by : Classical Press of Wales
The writing of Spartan history for long involved gliding - sometimes seamlessly - between the evidence of very different ancient sources. Now, a short series conceived by The Classical Press of Wales will examine closely and individually each o... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780856688782
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Classical Texts
This edition of St Augustine's City of God is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity. In these books, written in the ... .... Learn More