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CatullusThis edition of eighty poems of Catullus is designed for both university and school use. An introduction deals with the life of Catullus, with his indebtedness to Alexandrian poetry, and with the later history of the poems. The Latin text comes from the Oxford Classical Text of Catullus edited by the late Sir Roger Mynors. The commentary attempts to interpret the poems in the light of modern linguistic and literary scholarship and to assist the

Greeks also paid a heavy price for the mal-adaptation of this foreign form to their culture

Duckworth explains why these plays are important -and funny through discussion of suspense and irony

and he was certainly its most distinguished exponent in Greek

The anonymous pieces come from papyrus

explains the poems' meter

their destruction

The accessible text will inspire the visitor to Greece and equip the student of Greek architecture for further study

provides full context for that much discussed third-century portrayal of a charismatic religious teacher

a Roman nobleman named Boethius (ca

Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events are foretold and then pursued to their tragic and often bloodthirsty ends

Anne Carson’s lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy

Here a chaotic universe is subdued into harmonious order: animals turn to stone

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