This is a sourcebook in English of Roman documents pertaining to sports and spectacles in the Roman world, the types of entertainment the Romans favored and the way they organized and funded their spectacles.

This is a collection of standard texts of ancient Greek are important components of what we know about Greek myth, religion, language and culture and includes ample notes and introductions to place the works in their historic importance.

English translations of three of Sophocles' Oidipous Cycle: King Oidipous, King Oidipous and Antigone. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.

Selections from oral verse, Livius, Naevius, Ennius, and others (Caecilius, Accius, Pacuvius, and Lucilius).

This anthology includes four outstanding translations of Euripides plays: Medea, Bacchae, Hippolytus, and Heracles. These translations remain close to the original, with extensive introductions, interpretive essays, and footnotes. This series is designed to provide students and general readers with access to the nature of Greek drama, Greek mythology, and the context of Greek culture, as well as highly readable and understandable translations of four of Euripides most important plays. Focus also publishes each play as an individual volume."

English translation of Sophocles' famous tragedy of Oedipus and the fate he so much tries to avoid. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.

This is an English translation of Sophocles' tragedy of Oedipus who is banished from Thebes and confronts an array of obstacles that stand between him and the death he craves. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.

Illustrated prose translation of the epic poem with pedagogical apparatus for make reading this important work a joy. The text is complete with an introductory essay, glossary, and an appendix detailing the tabulation of the gods. Notes throughout the text provide help in following the narrative framework of the epic.

Features include

- Mythology and mythological references are noted throughout the book and an extensive glossary of names helps the reader follow the complicated genealogies.

- A comprehensive introduction provides comparison of the poem with the Iliad and the Odyssey as...

This is an English translation of Sophocles' tragedy of Philoctetes, an archer who had been abandoned on Lemnos by the rest of the Greek fleet while on the way to Troy. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.

This text contains selections from the Metamorphoses, the Fasti, Heroides, Tristia, Epistulae ex Ponto, Amores, and Ars Amatoria. Notes are below the text and a full vocabulary concludes the book.