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Euripides: CyclopsCambridge Greek and Latin Classics Euripides' Cyclops is the only example of Attic satyr drama which survives intact. It is a brilliant dramatisation of the famous story from Homer's Odyssey of how Odysseus blinded the Cyclops after making him drunk. The play has much to teach us, not just about satyr drama, but also about the reception and adaptation of Homer in classical Athens; the brutal savagery of the Homeric monster is here replaced by an

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and to the Pisones (the so-called 'Ars Poetica')

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How much can we know about the lives of women in the ancient world

με ανοιχτό χαρακτήρα και ευγενική παρουσία

Born a slave

Although intended primarily as a textbook for sixth-forms and undergraduates

Cicero's fifth speech against Verres - a Roman magistrate prosecuted for his notorious misgovernment of Sicily - was never actually delivered but is nonetheless a carefully crafted piece which shows all the vigour of Cicero's oratory at its height

Τα βιβλία περιλαμβάνουν την ερμηνεία των πιο δύσκολων λέξεων στα αγγλικά

In the spirit of the best ancient self-help writing

his use and transformation of earlier poetry (Homer's in particular) and his shaping of the narrative in its final phases

Professor Sommerstein here presents a freshly constituted text

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