Kategoria BISAC: Foreign Language Study >> Ancient Languages (see also Latin)

Sophocles' Ajax is one of the most disturbing and powerful
surviving ancient tragedies. But it is also difficult to understand and
interpret. What are we to make of its protagonist's extremism? Does Ajax
deserve the isolation and divine punishment he experiences? Why is his
state of mind so difficult to determine? Dr Hesk offers answers to these
and many other questions by drawing together the very latest critical
work on the play and introducing the reader to key frames for its
interpretation, including Sophoclean heroism, language and form; Homeric
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This school/university student edition of "Thucydides: Book I" by E.C. Marchant, consisting of Greek text, extensive philological notes and indexes, is supplemented by a useful later introduction and bibliography by Thomas Weidemann, covering the context and aims of the work and giving essential background to the events described.

Produced in 458 BC, Aeschylus' Choephori is the second play in the Oresteian trilogy. The bloodshed begun in the first play with the murder of Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra is here continued when Agamemnon's son Orestes avenges his father's death by killing Clytemnestra. It is not until the third and final play, Eumenides, that peace is restored to the family of the Atreidae. This edition takes into account the large amount of recent research on the play and tackles the problems presented by an unusually corrupt text. The introduction discusses the pre-Aeschylean 'Orestes'...

As fewer and fewer people learn to read ancient Greek, there is a need for a critical study of the most influential translations that have been made from the major works of ancient Greek literature. Mason's monograph offers exactly that for readers of the Iliad and the Odyssey. More particularly, he presents a persuasive argument for reading Alexander Pope's translation, his accompanying notes, and his Essay on Criticism. These merit careful study, for they illuminate Pope's principles as a translator and constitute one of the most intelligent and penetrating commentaries on the poetic...

Book XXI of Livy's history of Rome is one of the most frequently read either in its entirety or in extracts, for it includes Carthaginian campaigns in Spain and Hannibal's momentous crossing of the Alps to invade Italy.

P.G. Walsh's edition is designed specifically for use by students at A-Level. The commentary explains points of historical and literary importance, and elucidates grammatical peculiarities and passages of unusual difficulty. The introduction sets Livy in the context of Roman historiography as a whole, and deals in particular with Book XXI. There is a full vocabulary...

This selection from the writings of the second century AD satirist Lucian is aimed atbeginning and intermediate students of ancient Greek. It consists of the Greek text with facing vocabularies and explanations, an appendix on Lucian's life an works, exercises dealing with vocabulary, grammar and style, and a general vocabulary at the back of the book.

This selection of passages from the epic poets of the Silver Latin age of poetry (AD 14-117) is aimed at late school and university students. It is provided with a useful short introduction, the Latin texts, a commentary giving guidance on context and syntax, and an appendix of comparative passages from Virgil and Ennius. Passages included are: Lucan 1.33-66, 1.524-549, 3.399-452, 5.169-197, 5.504-596, 8.698-711, 9.1-18; Valerius Flaccus 1.608-642, 2.38-58, 5.416-454, 5.329-342, 6.575-601, 6.752-760, 7.1-25, 7.78-81, 7.103-126; Silius Italicus 4.81-87, 7.282-307, 10.527-542, 13.326-340,...

This volume contains classical Greek texts with English preliminaries.

This selection consists of the easier and more obviously amusing part of the Birds strung together to form a continuous play. The Introduction gives background on the theatre and City Dionysia. The Greek text is accompanied by notes, synopses of omitted parts, full stage directions and help with interpretation. There are appendixes on principal metres and particles.