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This selection for school use of six hundred lines from the works of Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Tibullus and Ovid is accompanied by an introduction which includes short biographies of each of the poets, and a section on metre. Copious notes follow the Latin text and there is a complete vocabulary at the back of the book. The selection consists of these passages: Catullus 3, 4, 31, 45, 51, 101; Virgil Georgics 2.136-73, 4.460-527, Aeneid 8.190-267; Horace Odes 3.9, 3.13, 4.7, 3.30; Tibullus 1.1; Ovid Metamorphoses 1.451-567.

A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome sets out to answer some of the questions often posed by students, the general public, and even by teachers, about what it was actually like to live in Ancient Rome. Taking the framework of a typical day in the life of the city and its people, the book is divided into Morning, Afternoon and Evening, guiding the reader though the daily experiences of the people in ancient Rome.
This book is ideal for teachers and school pupils of Classical Civilisation and provides a foundation for those looking at the culture of the ancient Romans.

This book, like its companions on Thucydides books I and IV, is published primarily for students approaching a book of Thucydides for the first time or studying the Peloponnesian War in a more general way. The Greek text and notes are those of E.C. Marchant, originally published in 1891, and the introduction is by Thomas Wiedemann, who takes into account the needs of the modern student and up-to-date research on Thucydides.

This classic school text book, first published in 1939 contains a 1000 word vocabulary covering all the words that a beginning student of ancient Greek will need to know. Interrogative, Relative and Demonstrative Adverbs and Pronouns, Prepositions, Particles, Conjunctions and Numerals have been excluded from the main vocabulary and grouped together at the end of the book, where there is also a table of the Principal Parts or Irregular Verbs.

This companion to the Penguin translation of Plutarch's Life of Pericles is divided into three parts. The introduction covers Pericles' life, writings and method of work; the biographical genre; and the portrayal of Pericles by earlier writers. There follows a commentary on the translation, and finally there is a series of useful endnotes on such topics as the treatment of Pericles by Attic comic poets; the historicity of the Peace of Callias and the Congress Decree; and the fortunes of members of Pericles' family.

Plato's "Protagoras" is the dialogue which pits Socrates against Protagoras as representative of the 'sophistic movement' and clearly distances Socrates from his teachings. Protagoras was the chief exponent of the view, ascribed comically by Aristophanes in "Clouds" to Socrates himself, that one should be able to argue with equal force for or against any particular socio-political or ethical standpoint (i.e. make the weaker argument appear the stronger). He was also author of the famous dictum that 'man ins the measure of all things'. This long-standing edition remains invaluable. It...

This school edition of Caesar's Gallic War book III contains an introduction giving background and context, the Latin text, notes on the text and vocabulary.

Since 1923 the Sammlung Tusculum has published authoritative editions of Greek and Latin works together with a German translation. The original texts are comprehensively annotated, and feature an introductory chapter. In the new volumes, additional essays delve into specific aspects of the works, illuminating their historical context and reception to the present day. The high academic quality of the new editions together with clearly written essays and annotations make the Sammlung Tusculum essential reading for students who are discovering an ancient author for the first...