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Aris & Phillips

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Xenophon and Arrian on Hunting
edited with an introduction, translation and commentary by A A Phillips and M M Willcock
As hunting generates such fierce debate in Britain today, it seems an appropriate moment to examine the two best classical works on the subject. For both authors hunting was primarily for hares with hounds. Xenophon describes the establishment needed, how to use it in the field and justifies hunting as the first part of education and the best training for war. Arrian's treatise, some five hundred years later, is a commentary on Xenophon's; to ...
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Pliny: Correspondence with Trajan from Bithynia
edited with introduction, translation and commentary by Wynne Williams~
Pliny's letters sent to Trajan from Bithynia, and Trajan's replies are the only surviving file of letters between a provincial governor and his emperor. The edition makes this record accessible to even those with no knowledge of Latin. To this end the translation is as literal as is consistent with English syntax and the notes on each exchange of letters analyse the precise problem submitted by Pliny and the character of Trajan's response, and ...
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Homer: Iliad VIII & IX
edited and translated by C. H. Wilson
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 the attention that their fine literary qualities deserve. In VIII, Zeus finally begins to fulfil the promise he has made to Thetis in Book I to give victory to the Trojans until Agamemnon compensates her son Achilles for the dishonour he has done him. The scenes of ...
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Thucydides: Pylos 425 BC; Book IV, 2-41
edited, introduced and translated by J. Wilson.
Book IV 2-41 of the Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War concerns the events of the campaign fought at Pylos and the island of Sphacteria between the Athenians and the Spartans in 425 BC. J.B. Wilson's much cited edition includes a Greek text and translation, followed by supplementary tets. The bulk of the volume consists of historical and topographical notes analysing in detail the events of the campaign based on both close ...
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Gracian meets Gongora
This book argues that the tradition of regarding the wit of the Metaphysical poets as a 'finding a likeness in things unlike' fails to account adequately for the poetic practice of Góngora, despite his reputation for the bold use of metaphor. One side of the case consists in showing the soundness of the theory of wit of Góngora's admirer, Baltasar Gracián, who saw no essential connection between wit and trope, and whose views are ...
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Greek Orators II: Dinarchus and Hyperides
edited and translated by Ian Worthington
Hyperides was ranked in antiquity as second in greatness only to Demosthenes amongst the Ten Attic Orators. His execution in 322 BC for opposition to Macedonian rule left Dinarchus as the last of the Ten to survive. This book critically evaluates the speeches of both orators against Demosthenes and discusses Hyperides' funeral oration as an important historical source for understanding Athens in the last years of the reign of Alexander the Great. ...
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Cicero: On Stoic Good and Evil
by M. R. Wright
Text with translation and commentary. (Aris and Phillips 1991)
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Spanish Ballads
with English verse translations and notes by Roger Wright
The Spanish ballad tradition is one of the largest and most colourful in Europe, as reflected in the present collection of 71 of the best examples. They include tales of love and adventure, ancient legends such as those of Rodrigo the last Visigothic king, the battle of Roncesvalles and Bernardo del Carpio, stirring accounts of events of Spanish History such as the life of the Cid and the reign of Pedro "the cruel", as well as the "frontier ...
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Herodas: Mimiambs
edited with a translation, introduction and commentary by Graham Zanker
Before the publication of the second-century AD papyrus containing eight and a fragmentary ninth of the Mimiambs of Herodas in 1891, Herodas was known only through approximately twenty lines which had survived in quotations found principally in Athenaios and Stobaios. Even after the publication of the papyrus and subsequent work on it, scarcely anything is known of their author. The scant evidence that has survived suggests that he lived ...
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