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  • - The Fragments
    av Antiphon
    676 - 1 846,-

    The sophist Antiphon lived in Athens in the fifth century BCE, where he was a contemporary of Socrates. He wrote several major works, which have survived only in very fragmentary form. This is a complete edition, with translation, of all the evidence both for these works and for Antiphon himself.

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    1 660,-

    New edition arguing that the book is a summary by Aristotle of a fourth-century medical treatise. The treatise makes clear advances over Hippocratic gynaecology, and Aristotle's comments on it illustrate the early stages of his reproductive theory. HA X is a central text for ancient gynaecology and Aristotelian methodology.

  • av Marcus Tullius Cicero
    1 176,-

    The fifth and sixth volumes of Dr Shackleton Bailey's edition of the Atticus letters contain a revised version of the text first published in the Oxford Classical Texts in 1961. Problems of dating in this part of the correspondence are severe, and prolonged study of them has caused Dr Shackleton Bailey to depart on occasions from the traditional chronology.

  • av Marcus Tullius Cicero
    700,-

    These two volumes form the first part of Dr Shackleton Bailey's long-awaited edition of the Atticus letters. The introduction (printed in volume I only) deals successively with the historical background and Cicero's relations with Atticus, manuscripts. The text, with selective apparatus, is printed with Dr Shackleton Bailey's translation on facing pages.

  • av Marcus Tullius Cicero
    1 190,-

    Two volumes form the first part of Dr Shackleton Bailey's long-awaited edition of the Atticus letters. The introduction (printed in volume I only) deals successively with the historical background and Cicero's relations with Atticus, manuscripts. The text, with selective apparatus, is printed with Dr Shackleton Bailey's translation on facing pages.

  • av Marcus Tullius Cicero
    830 - 1 836,-

    This is a complete critical edition of Cicero's Cato Maior de Senectute (On Old Age) with an introduction and commentary. The text is based on a fresh examination of the manuscript tradition while the introduction aims to place the work in the context of Cicero's writings on old age in the ancient world.

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    3 350,-

    A new critical edition of Diogenes Laertius' Lives of Eminent Philosophers, a unique work which has had a profound influence on European literature and philosophy. A lengthy introduction lists all the manuscripts of the Lives and discusses its transmission in late antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

  • av Rufinus
    500,-

    Nothing is known of the Greek poet Rufinus other than that he was the author of a collection of thirty-nine epigrams. In fact he is such an insubstantial figure that his date has been placed at various points within nearly half a millennium. Professor Page here presents a text of Rufinus' poems and a concise commentary on them.

  • av Velleius Paterculus
    816,-

    This volume deals with the most controversial part of Velleius' work, regarded by the majority of modern scholars as a panegyrical biography of Tiberius and used as an excuse for dismissing the historical value of Velleius' whole work.

  • av Claudian
    720,-

    An exhaustive study of Claudian's unfinished mythological epic, with a text, apparatus criticus, and commentary. The long introduction begins with a catalogue of manuscripts; and this leads to an investigation into the manuscript tradition and the history of the poem's transmission. Dr Hall then surveys the most important printed editions of the poem.

  • av Machon
    616,-

    All Machon's work that survives is preserved in the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus who, besides two fragments of Comedies of no great importance, quotes also 462 verses from a collection of anecdotes which Machon called Xpeiai. These anecdotes are written in the iambic verse of Comedy.

  • av Cornelius Tacitus
    1 476 - 2 720,-

    The Annals of Tacitus, which chronicle the years AD 14-68, are arguably the greatest work of the greatest Roman historian. Book 3 covers the years AD 20-22, a period including the trial of Calpurnius Piso for treason and the alleged murder of Germanicus. Throughout the volume attention is paid to literary matters, and textual, linguistic and historical issues are treated fully.

  • av Posidonius
    1 290,-

    Examines Posidonius' contribution to the learning of his time in the history of ideas.

  • av Posidonius
    1 476,-

    Examines Posidonius' contribution to the learning of his time in the history of ideas.

  • av Posidonius
    1 090 - 2 090,-

    This book translates the surviving evidence for one of the most important intellectual figures of the Graeco-Roman world, whose interests spread widely over philosophy, history and the sciences. The translations are accompanied by contextual introductions and explanatory notes, and a general introduction assesses the importance of Posidonius and his contribution.

  • - A Commentary
    av Alexis
    720 - 2 976,-

    This 1996 text was the first detailed commentary on the fragments remaining from the plays of the Greek comic poet Alexis (c. 375-270 BC). The comments discuss all aspects of the textual transmission, the language, the dramatic background and the relation of the plays to their contemporary milieu.

  • av Tacitus
    1 246,-

    The second volume includes a major commentary which deals fully with textual, linguistic, literary, and historical matters.

  • av Frontinus
    736 - 2 106,-

    In 97 CE Julius Frontinus was appointed by the Emperor Nerva to the post of water commissioner for the city of Rome. In the De Aquaductu Urbis Romae he sets forth his duties, responsibilities and accomplishments during his first year in office. He sketches the history of the aqueducts, furnishes a wealth of technical data and quotes verbatim from legal documents. This edition is the first since 1922 to be based on the single authoritative witness discovered at Monte Cassino in 1429 and is also the first to take into account the idiosyncrasies of its twelfth-century scribe, Peter the Deacon, a man notorious for literary affectations of his own. R. H. Rodgers provides the first full commentary since the early eighteenth century, dividing his attention between text and language on the one hand and content and interpretation on the other.

  • av Bion
    730 - 1 746,-

    The work of Bion of Smyrna, the late Hellenistic writer of bucolic poetry, survives in seventeen fragments and the longer Epitaph on Adonis. J. D. Reed presents a Greek text of the poems together with a facing translation. This is a comprehensive treatment of Bion, his poetry and his place in the literary tradition.

  • av Galen
    976 - 1 906,-

    A new edition of On Antecedent Causes, Galen's fascinating treatise on causal theory. The text is accompanied by the first translation of the treatise into a modern language. The volume also contains notes on Galen's life and work on the background to his causal theory, and on the history of the text itself.

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    1 506,-

    A full edition of Book 4 of Tacitus' Annals, which covers the years AD 23-28 when, under the influence of his henchman Sejanus, the emperor Tiberius famously changed for the worse and withdrew to the island of Capri.

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    2 380,-

    This major new edition of Sophocles' Oedipus the King, the first full-scale edition for a hundred and thirty years, takes a fresh look at a landmark in world literature; a newly constituted text is accompanied by a detailed introduction and commentary, as well as a full scholarly translation.

  •  
    1 746,-

    The agricultural writings of the third-century Roman author Gargilius Martialis provide an important perspective on ancient agriculture, scientific and technical authorship in Greece and Rome, and the history and sociolinguistics of Latin. This edition undertakes to explain Gargilius' agricultural writings and make them more accessible.

  •  
    2 176,-

    Full scholarly edition of the only complete poetic text from the fourth century BC, which bridges the classical age of tragedy and Hellenistic poetry and is a tragi-comic play paralleling the comic-tragic plays of Menander. Emphasises its intertextual engagement with its models and attempts to break free of them.

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    2 120,-

    A critical edition of part of Venantius Fortunatus' Vita Sancti Martini, which paraphrases in epic verse Sulpicius Severus' famous prose hagiography of St Martin and represents one of the last flowerings of a recognisably classical Latin tradition. Deals extensively with matters of exegesis, textual criticism, language, metre and much else.

  • av Posidonius
    990,-

    To coincide with the publication of Professor Kidd's long-awaited Commentary on Posidonius, the text of the Fragments, first published in 1972, is being issued in a new edition. This edition contains sixty new readings, nearly eighty alterations to the apparatus criticus, corrections of errors, and cross-references to recently published works.

  • - The Caesarian and Augustan Narrative (2.41-93)
    av Paterculus
    816,-

    The second volume in the edition, covering Velleius' narrative of Julius Caesar and Augustus.

  • - The Fragments
    av Eubulus
    730,-

    This is the first modern critical edition in any language of the fragments of Euculus, a comic poet of the fourth century B. C., a period known as the Middle Comedy. The introduction discusses Eubulus' life and work while the commentary traces themes in the fragments which are found both in the earlier and later works.

  • av Marcus Tullius Cicero
    1 676,-

    Professor Shackleton Bailey's edition of Cicero's letters to Atticus, also published in the Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries series, has been generally recognized as an outstanding achievement. Now Professor Shackleton Bailey presents his edition of the second major body of Cicero's correspondence - his letters to his friends.

  • av Marcus Tullius Cicero
    1 476,-

    Professor Shackleton Bailey's edition of Cicero's letters to Atticus, also published in the Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries series, has been generally recognized as an outstanding achievement. Now Professor Shackleton Bailey presents his edition of the second major body of Cicero's correspondence - his letters to his friends.

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