The Oxford Classical Texts, or Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, are renowned for their reliability and presentation. The series consists of a text without commentary but with a brief apparatus criticus at the foot of each page.
The Oxford Classical Texts, or Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, are renowned for their reliability and presentation. The series consists...
This vintage book is Bertram Thomas s 1932 travelogue, Arabia Felix . It is a factual account of his epic voyage across the vast southern desert of the Arabian Peninsula from 1930-3. A fascinating page-turner that chronicles a stunning achievement likely never to be attempted again, Arabia Felix would make for a worthy addition to any collection, and constitutes a must-read for lovers of exciting non-fiction. Contents include: A Propitious Start and an Early Check, At Dhufar: Anarchy, Treachery, and Hospitality, Skull-Measuring and Devil-Dancing, In the Qara Mountains: Ain ar Rizat, In the...
This vintage book is Bertram Thomas s 1932 travelogue, Arabia Felix . It is a factual account of his epic voyage across the vast southern desert of th...
Ingram Bywater (1840 1914) first published his edition of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics in 1890. His reconstruction of the Greek text is based on a careful weighing of the Greek manuscript evidence, Latin translations, the witness of early commentators and his own thorough knowledge of Aristotle's language and style. Bywater's choice of readings introduced many important alterations to the text given in previous editions; his preference for manuscripts Kb and Lb and for the commentary of Aspasius, represented by Heylbut's edition (1889), explains many of these changes. Select readings of the...
Ingram Bywater (1840 1914) first published his edition of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics in 1890. His reconstruction of the Greek text is based on a c...
In the tenth book of the Republic, when Plato has completed his final burning denunciation of Poetry, the false Siren, the imitator of things which themselves are shadows, the ally of all that is low and weak in the soul against that which is high and strong, who makes us feed the things we ought to starve and serve the things we ought to rule, he ends with a touch of compunction: 'We will give her champions, not poets themselves but poet-lovers, an opportunity to make her defence in plain prose and show that she is not...
On the Art of Poetry
By Aristotle
Translated by Ingram Bywater
In the tenth book of the Republic, when Plato has completed his final burning ...
