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Other titles in the Aris and Phillips Classical Texts series include:

Euripides: Medea

Jason, in exile in Corinth, is marrying the king’s daughter. It looks as though his problems are over, though it’s hard on Medea, who has betrayed her family for him, followed him all the way from Colchis, killed for him, and borne him two sons… Euripides’ Medea is a compelling study of love turned to hatred and a rejected woman’s burning desire for revenge. Its central, shocking, act of filicide comes as the climax of a psychological thriller in which Euripides’ dramaturgical skills are shown at their finest and the audience’s emotions are ruthlessly manipulated. Medea’s conflicting urges and her dazzling rhetoric have exercised an enduring fascination over audiences and readers since the play was first performed in 431 BC. This edition examines a wide range of aspects of the play, including text, performance, interpretation, Euripides’ sources, other lost plays about Medea and Euripides’ portrayal of character and gender.

Judith Mossman is Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham. She has also published Wild Justice: A Study of Euripides Hecuba (Oxford 1995, repr. BCP 1999) and edited Oxford Readings in Euripides (Oxford 2003).

Euripides: Alcestis (Conacher)Euripides: Andromache (Lloyd)Euripides: Bacchae (Seaford)Euripides: Children of Heracles

(Allan)Euripides: Electra (Cropp)Euripides: Hecuba (Collard)Euripides: Helen (Burian)Euripides: Heracles (Barlow)

Euripides: Hippolytus (Halleran)Euripides: Ion (Lee)Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris (Cropp)Euripides: Orestes (West)Euripides: Phoenician Women (Craik)Euripides: Selected Fragmentary Plays

Volumes 1 & 2 (Collard, Cropp, Gibert & Lee)

Euripides: Trojan Women (Barlow)

Euripides: MedeaJ. Mossman

Euripides’ Medea is a compelling study of love turned to hatred and a rejected woman’s burning desire for revenge. Its central, shocking, act of infanticide comes as the climax of a psychological thriller in which Euripides’ dramaturgical skills are shown at their finest and the audience’s emotions are ruthlessly manipulated. Medea’s conflicting urges and her dazzling rhetoric have exercised an enduring fascination over audiences and readers since the play’s first performance. This new edition examines a wide range of aspects of the play, including text, performance, interpretation, Euripides’ sources, other lost plays about Medea, and Euripides’ portrayal of character and gender and it intends to emphasise analytical and literary appreciation. The facing translation aims to be both accurate and idiomatic. The commentary pursues the aims of the introduction in analysing the structure and development, annotating and appreciating poetic style, and explains the ideas; philological comment is reserved for instances where it affects the interpretation.

Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays, Volume IIA. Sommerstein and T. Talboy

The plays included are The Epigoni, Oenomaus, Palamedes, The Arrival of Nauplius, Nauplius and the Beacon, The Shepherds and Triptolemus. Three of these dramatise successive phases of the story of how a jealous and treacherous Odysseus brought about the judicial murder of the culture-hero Palamedes and of the terrible revenge taken by Palamedes’ father Nauplius. The volume also includes dramas about the first day’s fighting of the Trojan War (The Shepherds), about the foundation of the mystery-cult of Eleusis (Triptolemus), about a young woman who contrived the death of her father in order to save her beloved (Oenomaus), and about a young man who killed his mother in obedience to the last injunctions of his father (The Epigoni or Eriphyle). The volume includes the text and translation of all the surviving fragments (and of a selection of other texts that give us information about these plays), with full commentary and an introduction to each play discussing the development of the myth and the likely content of the play so far as it can be reconstructed.

Terence: PhormioR. Maltby

Terence’s Phormio, based on a Greek original by Apollodorus of Carystus, was produced towards the end of his short dramatic career in 161 BC. With its lively action, based on the traditional elements of love, deception and mistaken identity, the play provides an ideal introduction to the genre of New Comedy. What makes the Phormio unique amongst Terence’s works is the central importance of the witty and scheming parasite who gives his name to the play and directs and controls its action throughout, even when absent from the stage. The use of the ‘double’ plot with its two young men in love and two contrasting fathers provides ample scope for depth and variety of characterisation. The aim of Maltby's new edition is to bring out to the full Terence’s skill in plot development and character portrayal which was to make the Phormio one of his most entertaining plays.

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Other early Greek tragedies in the Aris and Phillips Classical Texts series include:

Aeschylus: Eumenides (A. J. Podlecki); Persians (E. Hall); Prometheus Bound (A. J. Podlecki).

Euripides: Alcestis (D. Conacher); Andromache (M. Lloyd); Bacchae (R. Seaford); The Children of Heracles (W. Allan); Electra (M. J. Cropp); Hecuba (C. Collard); Helen (P. Burian); Heracles (S. A. Barlow); Hippolytus (M. R. Halleran); Ion (K. Lee); Iphigenia in Tauris (M. J. Cropp); Medea (J. Mossman); Orestes (M. L. West); Phoenician Women (E. Craik); Selected Fragmentary Plays I (C. Collard, M. Cropp & K. Lee); Selected Fragmentary Plays II (C. Collard, M. J. Cropp & J. Gibert); Suppliant Women (J. Morwood); Trojan Women (S. Barlow).

Sophocles: Ajax (A. F. Garvie); Antigone (A. L. Brown); Electra (J. R. March); Philoctetes (R. G. Ussher); Selected Fragmentary Plays I (A. H. Sommerstein, D. Fitzpatrick & T. Talboy).

SOPHOCLES: Selected Fragmentary Plays, Volume II

Following the volume of six fragmentary Sophoclean tragedies published in this series in 2006, Alan Sommerstein and Thomas Talboy now present seven more. The volume includes the text and translation of all the surviving fragments (and of a selection of other texts that give us information about these plays), with full commentary and an introduction to each play discussing, among other things, the development of the myth and the likely content of the play so far as it can be reconstructed. The plays included are The Epigoni, Oenomaus, Palamedes, The Arrival of Nauplius, Nauplius and the Beacon, The Shepherds and Triptolemus.

Alan H. Sommerstein has taught since 1974 at the University of Nottingham, where he is now Professor of Greek. His publications include Aeschylean Tragedy (1996), Greek Drama and Dramatists (2002), and editions of all the comedies of Aristophanes (1980–2002) and of Aeschylus’ Eumenides (1989).

Thomas H. Talboy recieved his PhD from the University of Nottingham and is the author of the online Greek Drama course for Royal Holloway, University of London, and The A–Z of Greek and Roman Theatre. He is actively engaged in the production and performance of Greek drama.

SELECTED FRAGMENTARY PLAYSVolume II

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Terence’s Phormio, based on a Greek original by Apollodorus of Carystus, was produced towards the end of his short dramatic career in 161 BC. With its lively action, based on the traditional elements of love, deception and mistaken identity, the play provides an ideal introduction to the genre of New Comedy. What makes the Phormio unique amongst Terence’s works is the central importance of the witty and scheming parasite who gives his name to the play and directs and controls its action throughout, even when absent from the stage. The use of the ‘double’ plot with its two young men in love and two contrasting fathers provides ample scope for depth and variety of characterisation. The aim of the present edition is to bring out to the full Terence’s skill in plot development and character portrayal which was to make the Phormio one of his most entertaining plays. Latin text with facing-page translation, introduction and commentary.

robert maltby is Professor of Latin Philology at the University of Leeds. He holds an MA and PhD from Cambridge. He has published Tibullus, Elegies (2002) and A Lexicon of Ancient Latin Etymologies (1990).

Further titles in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series include:

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Metamorphoses I-IV (1985)Metamorphoses V-VIII (1992)Metamorphoses XIII-XV with complete index (2000)Amores II (Booth)Poems 61-68 (Godwin)Shorter Poems (Godwin)Satires I (Brown)Satires II (Muecke)Epigrams Book V (Howell)

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Herodas: Mimiambs G. Zanker

Before the publication of the second-century AD papyrus in 1891, Herodas was known only through approximately twenty lines surviving in quotations found principally in Athenaios and Stobaios. The scant evidence that has survived suggests that he lived during the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphos (285–247 BC), on the island of Kos, and was a direct contemporary of the greatest of the Hellenistic poets, Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius. His Mimiambs are short humorous dramatic scenes written in verse, often bawdy, reflecting everyday life and dialect. Zanker's edition explores what we do know of the poet including the language, dialect and metre that he uses. Each poem is translated and accompanied by an individual commentary with synopsis, information on date, setting, sources and purpose, as well as close examination of vocabulary and grammar. The first translation of the Mimiamboi since 1906, this edition reveals Herodas’ work in all its skill and subtlety.

Lucretius: De Rerum Natura V M. R. Gale

Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura contains much of striking, contemporary relevance. In Book V the poet touches on many themes which may strike a chord with the twenty-first century reader: the fragility of our ecosystem, the corruption of political life, the futility of consumerism and the desirability of limiting our acquisitive instincts are all highly topical issues for us, as for the poem’s original audience. It also offers a fascinating introduction to the world-view of the upper-class Roman of the first century BC. This edition helps to make Lucretius’ urgent and impassioned argument, and something of his remarkable poetic style, accessible to a wider audience, including those with little or no knowledge of Latin. Both the translation and commentary aim to explain the scientific argument of the book as clearly as possible; and to convey at least some impression of the poetic texture of Lucretius’ Latin.

Menander: The Shield & The Arbitration S. Ireland

In later Antiquity the social comedies of Menander ranked second in popularity only to the epics of Homer. However for centuries thereafter, they were deemed irretrievably lost before their discovery in the 20th century in the sands of Egypt. The new translations of the important fragmentary plays The Shield and The Arbitration presented here intend to provide readers with ready access to Menander’s consummate sophistication in dramatic techniques. The accompanying translation aims at providing a version that is readable, while at the same time remaining close enough to the original to make comparison of the two a feasible proposition. It also aims at conveying the essential fluidity of Menander’s text. The commentary, which is primarily founded on the translation, focuses on factors significant to the modern reader and concentrates upon dramatic development, providing the reader with pointers to appreciating the playwright’s often subtle techniques of both dramatic development and character portrayal.

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Aristophanes: complete plays plus indexes in twelve volumes (Sommerstein) Herodas: Mimiambs (Zanker) Menander: The Bad-Tempered Man (Ireland) Menander: Samia (Bain) Terence: The Brothers (Gratwick) Terence: The Eunuch (Brothers) Terence: The Mother-in-Law (Ireland) Terence: The Self-Tormentor (Brothers)

menander: the shield and the arbitration

Though in antiquity the social comedies of Menander ranked second in popularity only to Homer, his plays were for centuries thought to be irretrievably lost. It was only in the 20th century that large sections of his work began to emerge, The Arbitration’s major portion published in 1907, The Shield in 1969. With these and other finds we can now gauge in full the skill that Menander brought to his works. In preparing this edition the author has aimed to make accessible to readers some of the consummate sophistication in dramatic technique and use of language that once produced the question, ‘Menander and Life, which of you imitated the other?’

Stanley Ireland is Reader in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. He has written on such diverse topics as Menander, Aeschylus, Roman Britain, Apollodorus and Ancient Numismatics. His is the editor of Menander’s The Bad-Tempered-Man and Terence’s The Mother-in-Law in this series.

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Herodas: Mimiambs

Before the publication of the second-century AD papyrus containing eight and a fragmentary ninth of the Mimiambs of Herodas in 1891, Herodas was known only through approximately twenty lines which had survived in quotations found principally in Athenaios and Stobaios. Even after the publication of the papyrus and subsequent work on it, scarcely anything is known of their author. The scant evidence that has survived suggests that he lived during the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphos (285–247 BC), at least for a time on the island of Kos, and was a direct contemporary of the greatest of the Hellenistic poets, Kallimachos, Theokritos and Apollonios. His Mimiambs are short, humorous dramatic scenes written in verse, often bawdy, artfully reflecting the seemier side of everyday life. In this edition Graham Zanker explores what we do know of the poet including the language, dialect and metre that he uses, and contributes to questions of current scholarly interest, notably characterization and the poems’ mode of performance. Each poem is translated and accompanied by an individual commentary with synopsis, information on date, setting, sources and purpose, as well as close examination of vocabulary and grammar, and critical essays. This edition reveals Herodas’ work in all its skill and subtlety.

Graham Zanker is Professor of Classics at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. Studies by him relevant to Herodas include two books, Realism in Hellenistic Poetry: A Literature and its Audience (1987) and Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art (2004).

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Lucretius: De Rerum Natura III (Michael Brown)Lucretius: De Rerum Natura IV (J. Godwin)Lucretius: De Rerum Natura VI (J. Godwin)

Catullus: Poems 61–68 (J. Godwin)Cicero: On Stoic Good and Evil (M. R. Wright)Cicero: Second Philippic Oration (W. K. Lacey)Cicero: Tusculan Disputations (A. E. Douglas)Livy: Books XXXVI to XL (P. G. Walsh)Lucan: Civil War VIII (R. Mayer)Martial: Epigrams, Book V ((P. Howell)Ovid: Amores II (Joan Booth)Pindar: Selected Odes (S. Instone)Tacitus: Annals IV (D. C. A. Shotter); V (R. Martin)Tacitus: Germania (H. W. Benario)

Lucretius: De Rerum Natura V

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Stephen Usher

Book 5 of Lucretius’ philosophical epic De Rerum Natura (‘On the Nature of the Universe’) deals with the origins of our world and of human civilisation. The poet expounds a rationalist theory of cosmic and cultural development based ultimately on chance encounters of atoms, and excludes the gods from any role in the creation or government of the world. Along the way, he touches on many themes as strikingly relevant in the modern as in the ancient world: the fragility of our ecosystem, the corruption of political life, the futility of consumerism and the desirability of limiting our acquisitive instincts. This edition seeks to convey something of the power of Lucretius’ poetic style to students reading the text either in translation or in the original Latin, as well as explaining the scientific argument of the book.

monica r Gale is Associate Professor in Classics at Trinity College, Dublin. She is the author of Myth and Poetry in Lucretius; Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, and other books and articles on the poetry of the late Roman Republic and the Augustan period.

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Augustine: De Civitate Dei V P. G. Walsh

This edition of St Augustine’s City of God is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity. In this work, written in the aftermath of the sack of Rome in AD 410 by the Goths, Augustine replies to the pagans, who attributed the fall of Rome to the Christian religion and its prohibition of the worship of the pagan gods. Book V is of particular importance for Augustine’s philosophy of history. In accounting for the prodigious growth and continuance of the Roman Empire, he dismisses secular theories of chance and fate in favour of the universal sway of divine Providence. In achieving this end, God has exploited the Roman virtues, and Christians are urged to emulate them. Both pagan and Christian leaders have contributed to Roman greatness. The book concludes with eulogies of the Christian leaders Constantine and Theodosius.

Augustine: De Civitate Dei VI & VII P. G. Walsh

Books VI and VII focus on the figure of Terentius Varro – a man revered by Augustine’s pagan contemporaries. By exploiting Varro’s learned researches on Roman religion, Augustine condemns Roman religious practices and beliefs in order to refute pagan claims that the Roman deities had guaranteed a blessed life in the hereafter for their devotees. These books are therefore not only an invaluable source for the study of early Christianity but also for any student of Classical Rome, who is provided here with a detailed account of one of the most learned figures of Roman antiquity – one whose own works have not survived in the same state.

Augustine: De Civitate Dei VIII & IXP. G. Walsh

Before his conversion to Christianity, Augustine had devoted himself to the study of Platonism and in books VIII and IX he renews his acquaintance with this philosophy. The main topic of these books is demonology, with Augustine using the De Deo Socratis of Apuleis as the foundation of his exploration of this theme. He is keen to highlight the similarities between Platonism and Christianity and therefore puts forward the theory that the ideal mediator between God and man is Christ – he who shares temporary mortality with humans and permanent blessedness with God.

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AUGUSTINEDe Civitate Dei

(The City of God)BOOKS VI & VII

edited with an Introduction, Translation and Commentary by

P. G. Walsh

AUGUSTINE: De Civitate Dei Books VI & VII

In these two books of The City of God, Augustine confronts the religious writings of Terentius Varro, friend of Cicero and acknowledged as the greatest scholar of the age. In particular his Res diuinae was widely regarded as the authoritative study of Roman religion. In Book VI Augustine criticises Varro’s general approach, and appends an account of the criticisms of the Younger Seneca’s De superstitione. In Book VII, Augustine concentrates his attack on Book XVI of Res diuinae, in which Varro listed the twenty Select Gods. Augustine criticises the choice of the twenty, and describes how the Christian God performs all the roles undertaken by each of them. Finally, Augustine describes how Roman religion originated, when Numa Pompilius cooperated with the demons.

P.G. Walsh is Senior Research Fellow and Emeritus Professor of Humanity at the University of Glasgow. He is editor of Augustine, De bono coniugali and De sancta uirginitate (Oxford), translator of Paulinus of Nola (Letters, Poems) and of Cassiodorus, Explanation of the Psalms (Ancient Christian Writers). He is also editor of many volumes of Livy, including separate editions of Books XXXVI to XL in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series. Livy is a main source of Augustine in these books of The City of God.

Other titles on early Christianity in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series:

Augustine: The City of God Books I & II (Walsh)Augustine: The City of God Books III & IV (Walsh)Augustine: The City of God Book V (Walsh)Augustine: The City of God Books VIII & IX (Walsh, forthcoming)Augustine: The City of God Book X (Walsh, forthcoming)Augustine: Soliloquies and Immortality of the Soul (Watson)Egeria’s Travels (Wilkinson)Jerusalem Pilgrims before the Crusades (Wilkinson)

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AUGUSTINEDe Civitate Dei

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edited with an Introduction, Translation and Commentary by

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AUGUSTINE: De Civitate Dei Books VIII & IX

In this, the fifth volume of the series, Augustine devoted Books VIII and IX to a comparative study of the Platonist tradition vis-a-vis the City of God, which is the Christian Church. Book VIII begins with a brief survey of ancient philosophy from Thales to Plato. Augustine rapidly moves on to Middle Platonism, in which the Latin text of Apuleius, The God of Socrates, allows him to focus on demonology. The final chapters of this book incorporate the study of Hermes Trismegistus and the Egyptian tradition, which he is able to analyse through another Latin text, the Asclepius. Book IX resumes the study of demonology with the introduction of the Neoplatonists Plotinus and Porphyry, whom Augustine had studied during the years of his conversion at Milan. His final conclusion is that unlike the demons, the ideal mediator between heaven and earth is the God-Man Jesus Christ.

P.G. Walsh is Senior Research Fellow and Emeritus Professor of Humanity at the University of Glasgow. He is editor of Augustine, De bono coniugali and De sancta uirginitate (Oxford), translator of Paulinus of Nola (Letters, Poems) and of Cassiodorus, Explanation of the Psalms (Ancient Christian Writers). He is also editor of many volumes of Livy, including separate editions of Books XXXVI to XL in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series. Livy is a main source of Augustine in these books of The City of God.

Other titles on early Christianity in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series:Augustine: The City of God Books I & II (Walsh)Augustine: The City of God Books III & IV (Walsh)Augustine: The City of God Book V (Walsh)Augustine: The City of God Books VI & VII (Walsh)Augustine: The City of God Book X (Walsh, forthcoming)Augustine: Soliloquies and Immortality of the Soul (Watson)Egeria’s Travels (Wilkinson)Jerusalem Pilgrims before the Crusades (Wilkinson)

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Eumenides A. J. PodleckiPB: 9780856683824, £18/$32232p, 1989, reprinted 1992

The Persians E. HallPB: 9780856685972, £18/$32201p, 1996, reprinted 2007

Prometheus Bound A. J. PodleckiPB: 9780856684722, £18/$32HB: 9780856684715, £45/$80240p, 2005

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The Wars of the Roman in Iberia J. RichardsonPB: 9780856687204, £18/$32184p, 2000

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AcharniansA. H. SommersteinPB: 9780856687204, £18/$32232p, 1980, reprinted 1998

BirdsA. H. SommersteinPB: 9780856682889, £18/$32376p, 1987, reprinted 2003

Clouds A. H. SommersteinPB: 9780856682100, £18/$32240pp, 1982, reprinted 2007

EcclesiazusaeA. H. SommersteinPB: 9780856687082, £18/$32240p, 1999, reprinted 2007

Frogs A. H. SommersteinPB: 9780856686481, £18/$32299p, 1996, reprinted 2003

Knights A. H. SommersteinPB: 9780856681783, £18/$32HB: 9780856681776, £9.95/$14.98*232pp, 1981

Lysistrata A. H. SommersteinPB: 9780856684586, £18/$32224pp, 1990, reprinted 2007

Peace A. H. SommersteinPB: 9780856687853, £18/$32214pp, 1985, new edition 2005

Thesmophoriazusae A. H. SommersteinPB: 9780856685590, £18/$32254pp, 1994, reprinted 2012

Wasps A. H. SommersteinPB: 9780856682131, £18/$32279p, 1983, reprinted 2004

Wealth A. H. SommersteinPB: 9780856686634, £18/$32336p, 2001

Aristotle

On the Heavens I and II S. LeggattPB: 9780856686634, £18/$32HB: 9780856686627, £9.95/$14.98*230p, 1995

On Sleep and Dreams D. GallopPB: 9780856686757, £18/$32HB: 9780856686740, £9.95/$14.98*215p, 1996, reprinted 2012

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Andromache M. LloydPB: 9780856687709, £18/$32204p, 1995, second edition 2005

Bacchae R. SeafordPB: 9780856686092, £18/$32270p, 1996, reprinted 2011

Children of Heracles W. AllanPB: 9780856687419, £18/$32HB: 9780856687402, £9.95/$14.98*248p, 2001

Electra M. J. CroppPB: 9780856682391, £18/$32HB: 9780856682384, £9.95/$14.98*222p, 1988, reprinted 2003

HecubaC. CollardPB: 9780856682377, £18/$32213p, 1991

Helen P. BurianPB: 9780856686511, £18/$32HB: 9780856686504, £45/$80309pp, 2007

HeraclesS. A. BarlowPB: 9780856682339, £18/$32222p, 1996

HippolytusM. R. HalleranPB: 9780856682414, £18/$32276p, 1995, reprinted 2004

IonK. H. LeePB: 9780856682452, £18/$32330p, 1997, reprinted 2007

Iphigenia in Tauris M. J. Cropp9780856686535, £18/$32HB: 9780856686528, £9.95/$14.98*288p, 2001

Medea J. MossmanPB: 9780856687884, £24.99/$38HB: 9780856687839, £50/$85392p, 2010

OrestesM. L. WestPB: 9780856683114, £18/$32297p, 1987, reprinted 1990, 2007

Phoenician WomenE. CraikPB: 9780856682315, £18/$32HB: 9780856682308, £9.95/$14.98*274p, 1988

Selected Fragmentary Plays Vol I C. Collard, M. Cropp and K. H. LeePB: 9780856686191, £18/$32289p, 1995, reprinted 1997, 2009

Selected Fragmentary Plays Vol IIC. Collard, M. J. Cropp and J. GilbertPB: 9780856686214, £22.50/$35HB: 9780856686207, £45/$85400p, 2004

Suppliant WomanJ. MorwoodPB: 9780856687846, £18/$32HB: 9780856687792, £9.95/$14.98*269p, 2007

Trojan WomenS. BarlowPB: 97870856682292, £18/$32232p, 1986, reprinted 2011


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Book I: Antiphon, Lysias M. Edwards and S. UsherPB: 9780856682476, £18/$32282p, 1985, reprinted 1987, 1993, 2005

Book II: Dinarchus and Hyperides I. WorthingtonPB: 9780856683077, £18/$32HB: 9780856683060, £9.95/$14.98*228p, 2000

Book III: Isocrates, Panegyricus and Ad NicolemS. UsherPB: 9780856684142, £18/$32219p, 1990, reprinted 2011

Book IV: AndocidesM. EdwardsPB: 9780856685286, £18/$32HB: 9780856685279, £9.95/$14.98*232p, 1995

Book V: Demosthenes On the CrownS. UsherPB: 9780856685347, £18/$32208p, 1993, reprinted 2007

Book VI: Apollodorus Against Neaira C. CareyPB: 9780856685262, £18/$32164p, 1992, reprinted 2007

hellenicA oxyrhynchiA P. R. McKechnie and S. J. KernPB: 9780856683589, £18/$32188p, 1988, reprinted 2007

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Mimiambs G. ZankerPB: 9780856688737, £19.99/$34HB: 9780856688836, £50/$85340pp, 2009

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Iliad VIII and IXC. H. WilsonPB: 9780856686283, £18/$32HB: 9780856686276, £9.95/$14.98*253p, 1996

Odyssey I and IIP. V. JonesPB: 9780856684708, £18/$32232p, 1991, reprinted 2011

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A Selection M. B. McLeodPB: 9780856684166, £18/$32316p, 1991, reprinted 2011

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The Bad Tempered ManS. IrelandPB: 978085686115, £18/$32186p, 1995

SamiaD. M. BainPB: 9780856682254, £18/$32131p, 1983

The Shield & The ArbitrationS. IrelandPB: 9780856688331, £19.99/$34HB: 9780856688973, £50/$85224p, 2010

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Selected OdesS. InstonePB: 9780856686696, £18/$32HB: 9780856686689, £9.95/$14.98*212p, 1996, reprinted 2008

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ApologyM. C. StokesPB: 9780856683725, £18/$32200p, 1997, reprinted 2005

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PhaedrusC. J. RowePB: 9780856683145, £18/$32224p, 1986, reprinted 2005

Republic I and II (–368c) C. Emlyn-JonesPB: 9780856687570, £18/$32200p, 2007

Republic VS. HalliwellPB: 9780856685361, £18/$32228p, 1993, reprinted 2008

Republic X S. HalliwellPB: 9780856684067, £18/$32197p, 1988, reprinted 2005

Statesman C. J. RowePB: 9780856686139, £18/$32HB: 9780856686122, £9.95/$14.98*248p, 1995, reprinted 2006

Symposium C. J. RowePB: 9780856686153, £18/$32220p, 1999, reprinted 2004, 2006, 2009

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Life of Cicero J. J. MolesPB: 9780856683619, £18/$32210p, 1989, reprinted 2007

Lives of Aristeides and CatoD. SansonePB: 9780856684227, £18/$32HB: 9780856684210, £45/$80244p, 1989

Malice of HerodotosA. J. BowenPB: 9780856685699, £18/$32153p, 1992

ThemistoclesJ. L. MarrPB: 9780856686771, £18/$32HB: 9780856686764, £9.95/$14.98*176p, 1998

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AjaxA. F. GarviePB: 9780856686603, £18/$32266p, 1998

Antigone A. L. BrownPB: 9780856682674, £18/$32HB: 9780856682667, £9.95/$14.98*227p, 1987, reprinted 1993

ElectraJ. R. MarchPB: 9780856685767, £18/$32240p, 2001, reprinted 2003

Philoctetesby R. G. UssherPB: 9780856684609, £18/$32187p, 1990

Selected Fragmentary Plays I A. Sommerstein, D. Fitzpatrick and T. TalboyPB: 9780856687662, £18/$32HB: 9780856687655, £45/$80356p, 2006

Selected Fragmentary Plays IIA. Sommerstein and T. TalboyPB: 9780856688928, £24.99/$38HB: 9780856688874, £50/$85320p, 2011


ARIS & PHILLIPS CLASSICAL TEXTS

SOPHOCLES

with Introductions, Translations and Commentaries by

A. H. Sommerstein, D. Fitzpatrick and T. Talboy

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Other early Greek tragedies in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series include:Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound (A.J. Podlecki 2005).Euripides: Andromache (M. Lloyd 1994, 2nd edition 2005); The Children of Heracles

(W. Allan 2001); Helen (P. Burian 2006); Iphigenia in Tauris (M. J. Cropp 2000);Selected Fragmentary Plays I (C. Collard & M. Cropp 1995); Selected Fragmentary PlaysII (C. Collard, M. J. Cropp & J Gibert 2004)

Sophocles: Ajax (A. F. Garvie 1998); Antigone (A. L. Brown 1991); Electra (J. R. March2001); Philoctetes (R. G. Ussher 1990).

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SELECTED FRAGMENTARY PLAYSVolume I

SOPHOCLES: Selected Fragmentary Plays, Volume IThe fragmentary plays of Sophocles often give us glimpses of a dramatist muchmore versatile and much less predictable than might be supposed on the basis ofthe seven plays that survive complete. This volume, the first of two, presents six ofSophocles’ 100 or so fragmentary tragedies – Hermione, Polyxene, Syndeipnoi (TheDiners), Tereus, Troilus and Phaedra. Each play is introduced by a summarybibliography and an essay which analyses the mythic background and plot,including artistic evidence for the story and other dramatic and literary treatmentsof it; reconstructs the play to as great, or as little, an extent as the fragments of thetext and the secondary evidence allow; and discusses themes, characterization, andsuch evidence as there may be for staging and date. The fragments of the text andselected key secondary evidence are then presented, accompanied by an Englishtranslation and followed by a short, primarily interpretative commentary.

Alan H. Sommerstein has taught since 1974 at the University of Nottingham, where he is nowProfessor of Greek. His publications include Aeschylean Tragedy (1996), Greek Drama andDramatists (2002), and editions of all the comedies of Aristophanes (1980–2002) and ofAeschylus’ Eumenides (1989); he is currently preparing an edition and translation of the playsand fragments of Aeschylus for the Loeb Classical Library.

David Fitzpatrick holds a PhD from the University of Nottingham. He is now with The OpenUniversity, where, between 2000 and 2005, he was the Project Officer for the Classics sectionof The Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology, part of a nation-wide initiativeaimed at sharing good teaching and learning practice in higher education.

Thomas Talboy received his PhD from the University of Nottingham and is the author of theonline Greek Drama course for Royal Holloway, University of London, and is preparing TheA-Z of Greek and Roman Theatre. He is actively engaged in the production and performance ofGreek drama.

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History, Book II P. J. RhodesPB: 9780856683978, £18/$32HB: 9780856683961, £9.95/$14.98*282p, 1988, reprinted 2008

History, Book III P. J. RhodesPB: 9780856685408, £18/$32273p, 1994, reprinted 2004

History, Book IV.1–V.24 P. J. RhodesPB: 9780856687020, £18/$32HB: 9780856687013, £9.95/$14.98*343p, 1998, reprinted 2008

Pylos 425 BC; Book IV, 2–41 J. WilsonPB: 9780856681790, £18/$32148p, 1979, reprinted 2007

The Experience of Thucydides D. ProctorPB: 9780856682476, £18/$32272p, 1980

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Apology & Memorabilia IM. D. McLeodPB: 9780856687129, £18/$32HB: 9780856687136, £45/$80174p, 2008

Hellenika I–II.3.10 P. KrentzPB: 9780856684647, £18/$32204p, 1989, reprinted 1993, 2004

Hellenika II.3.11–IV.2.8 P. KrentzPB: 9780856686429, £18/$32220p, 1995

Symposium A. J. BowenPB: 9780856686825, £18/$32HB: 9780856686818, £9.95/$14.98*160p, 1999

Xenophon and Arrian on Hunting A. A. Phillips and M. M. WillcockPB: 9780856687068, £18/$32HB: 9780856687051, £9.95/$14.98* 196p, 1999

The ‘Old Oligarch’ The Constitution of the Athenians Attributed to Xenophon J. L. Marr and P. J. RhodesPB: 9780856687815, £18/$32HB: 9780856688973, £9.95/14.98*189p, 2008

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EURIPIDESTrojan Women

Translation and Commentary by

Shirley A. Barlow

EUR

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EURIPIDES: Trojan Women

The Trojan Women is very much a play for our times. Strongly against war, it shows its aftermath through the eyes of a group of women, members of the Trojan royal household. They have experienced displacement, degradation and deprivation as their city has been sacked by the Greeks. The play expresses their protest, their articulation of grief, their reflection upon the world they now find themselves in, one in which the more they suffer the more their love for each other and for the family they have lost is strengthened.

The Trojan Women is concentrated in its emotive power and its uniquely lyric quality and it is not without the irony either that the positions of victors and vanquished are not always as fixed or as irreversible as they seem.

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Euripides:


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Ion (Lee)Iphigenia in Tauris (Cropp)Medea (Mossman)Orestes (West)Phoenician Women (Craik)Selected Fragmentary Plays Vols. 1 & 2 (Collard, Cropp, Gibert & Lee) Suppliant Women (Morwood)

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XENOPHONHellenika II.3.11–IV.2.8

Edited with an Introduction, Translation and Commentary by

Peter Krentz

XENOPHON: Hellenika II.3.11–IV.2.8 “It is the best of Xenophon, it is the worst of Xenophon. Readers looking for a carefully researched, well balanced, and reliable narrative of Greek affairs from 404 to 395 (BC) will be disappointed”– the author. The second part of the Hellenika, covering the decade after the end of the Peloponnesian War, is Xenophon at his best. It unfolds in a series of discrete, often dramatic, episodes: The Thirty at Athens, the campaigns of Thibron and Derkylidas in Asia Minor, the Spartan War against Elis, the accession of King Agesilaos, the conspiracy of Kinadon, the campaigns of Agesilaos in Asia Minor, the outbreak of war against Sparta in Greece, and Agesilaos’ recall. It includes several of Xenophon’s best speeches, some of his wittiest dialogue, and several choice turns of phrase. This edition follows the pattern of the Hellenika I–II.3.10 (1989). The commentary tries both to interpret the text and to assess its historical accuracy. Throughout Krentz uses the rest of Xenophon’s works to throw light on the Hellenika.

Peter Krentz is W. R. Grey Professor of Classics and History at Davidson College, North Carolina, where he has taught Greek and Roman history since 1979. He is author of The Battle of Marathon (Yale UP 2010) and editor of Xenophon Hellenika II.3.11-IV.2.8 in this series.

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Hellenica Oxyrhynchia (McKechnie & Kern)The ‘Old Oligarch’: The Constitution of the Athenians attributed to Xenophon (Marr & Rhodes)Thucydides: History Book II (Rhodes)Thucydides: History Book III (Rhodes)Thucydides: History IV.1-V.24 (Rhodes)Thucydides: Pylos 425 BC (Wilson)Xenophon: Hellenika I-II.3.10 (Krentz)

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EURIPIDESHelen

with Introduction, Translation and Commentary by

PETER BURIAN

Peter Burian

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Other early Greek tragedies in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series:Aeschylus: The Eumenides (A. J. Podlecki 1989); The Persians (E. Hall 1996).Euripides: Alcestis (D. Conacher 1988); Andromache (M. Lloyd 1994); Bacchae (R. Seaford

1996); The Children of Heracles (W. Allan 2001); Electra (M. Cropp 1988); Hecuba (C.Collard 1991); Heracles (S. Barlow 1996); Hippolytus (M. Halleran 1995); Ion (K. H. Lee1997); Iphigenia in Tauris (M. J. Cropp 2000); Orestes (M. L. West 1987); PhoenicianWomen (E. Craik 1988); Selected Fragmentary Plays I (C. Collard & M. Cropp 1995);Selected Fragmentary Plays II (C. Collard, M. J. Cropp & J Gibert 2004); Trojan Women(S. Barlow 1986).

Sophocles: Ajax (A. F. Garvie 1998); Antigone (A. L. Brown 1991); Electra (J. R. March2001); Philoctetes (R. G. Ussher 1990).

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Euripides: HelenThe Helen of this extraordinary play never goes to Troy, but is carried to Egypt,where she remains during and after the Trojan War, waiting faithfully for her husbandMenelaus to rescue her. Meanwhile, Helen of Troy – a mere phantom fashioned bythe gods – has blighted the real Helen’s life with undeserved hatred, since shecannot escape blame for destruction and death in which she had no part, or rather apart in name only. In Euripides’ hands this premise suggests a world in whichnothing is precisely what it seems. Helen plays with the confusion of appearanceand reality in ways that are by turns amusing and disturbing, playful and full ofserious quandaries. Whether understood as tragedy or (as some critics prefer)something more like philosophical divertissement or romantic comedy, Helen hasincreasingly been recognized as an intellectually challenging and emotionallysatisfying dramatic masterpiece.

Peter Burian is Professor of Classical and Comparative Literatures, Professor ofTheatre Studies and Chair of the Department of Classical Studies at Duke University(North Carolina).


EURIPIDES

with an Introduction, Translation and Commentary by

Richard Seaford

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This is the first commentary in English on this fascinating play since that of E.R. Dodds of 1960. It takes account of the great amount written on the play since then as well as of the discoveries that have been made about the cult of Dionysus.

Richard Seaford is Professor of Greek at the University of Exeter. He has published widely on the both the Bacchae and the Dionysus cult.


Euripides:

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BACCHAE

Alcestis (Conacher)Andromache (Lloyd)Children of Heracles (Allan)Electra (Cropp)Hecuba (Collard)Helen (Burian)Heracles (Barlow)Hippolytus (Halleran)Ion (Lee)Iphigenia in Tauris (Cropp)Medea (Mossman)Orestes (West)Phoenician Women (Craik)Selected Fragmentary Plays Volumes 1 & 2 (Collard, Cropp, Lee & Gibert)Suppliant Women (Morwood)Trojan Women (Barlow)


LUCIANA seleCTion

Edited with an Intoduction, Translation & Commentary byM. D. MacLeod

LUC

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LUCIAN:A Selection

Lucian lived in the second century AD and though his mother tongue was probably Aramaic he was famous for his witty satire and polished Greek. The aim of this selection is to produce a representative coverage of some of Lucian’s best work, particularly those pieces not available in recent editions or translations. Five of the nine works offered are examples of the comic, satiric dialogue as that was Lucian’s forte, but also included to illustrate the author’s versatility are an autobiography, a satirical discourse, a description of a painting and a major work of literary criticism.

M.D. MacLeod taught at the University of Southampton and is the editor of the Oxford Classical Texts of Lucian


Herodas: Pindar:Plutarch:


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Mimiambs (Zanker)Selected Odes (Instone)Life of Cicero (Moles)Themistocles (Marr)Malice of Herodotus (Bowen)Lives of Aristeides and Cato (Sansone)

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HOMEROdyssey 1 & 2

Edited with an Introduction, Translation & Commentary byP. V. Jones

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Homer: odyssey I & II

This edition is produced with particular concern for the student coming to Homer for the first time. The text is given with facing translation and commentary, but the usual apparatus criticus at the bottom of each page is replaced by brief notes on Homeric language. This makes the text considerably more accessible for those without Homeric Greek. These notes are cross-referenced to an introduction on Homeric language for those meeting it for the first time. Textual matters are discussed in the commentary itself, though this is, as is usual in the series, mainly concerned with the meaning of the epic.

P. V. Jones, Senior lecturer in Classics at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, has written a previous commentary on Homer and is well known as a battler for the place of clasics in the modern curriculum.


Aeschylus Eumenides (Podlecki) Persians (Hall) Prometheus Bound (Podlecki)Homer: Iliad VIII & IX (Wilson)Pindar: Selected Odes (Instone)

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Civil War I and IIJ. M. CarterPB: 9780856684623, £18/$32HB: 9780856684616, £9.95/$14.98*242p, 1991, reprinted 2005

Civil War IIIJ. M. CarterPB: 9780856685835, £18/$32254pp, 1993, reprinted 2010

cAssius dio Roman History 53.1–55.9 J. W. RichPB: 9780856683848, £18/$32260p, 1990, reprinted 2007

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The Shorter Poems J. GodwinPB: 9780856687150, £18/$32240pp, 1999, reprinted 2007

Poems 61–68 J. GodwinPB: 9780856686719, £18/$32234pp, 1995

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Laelius on Friendship and the Dream of Scipio J. G. F. PowellPB: 9780856684418, £18/$32176p, 1991, reprinted 2005

Letters of January to April 43BC M. M. WillcockPB: 9780856686320, £18/$32HB: 9780856686313, £9.95/$14.98*154p, 1996

On Fate, with Boethius, Consolation VR. W. SharplesPB: 9780856684760, £18/$32HB: 9780856686313, £9.95/$14.98*244p, 1992

On Stoic Good and EvilM. R. WrightPB: 9780856684685, £18/$32HB: 9780856684678, £9.95/$14.98*220p, 1991

Phillipics IIW. K. LaceyPB: 9780856682551, £18/$32248p, 1986, reprinted 2006

Tusculan Disputations IA. E. DouglasPB: 978085682513, £18/$32HB: 9780856682506, £9.95/$14.98*133p, 1985, reprinted 2011

Tusculan Disputations II and V A. E. DouglasPB: 9780856684333, £18/$32166p, 1980

Verrine Orations II,1T. N. MitchellPB: 9780856682537, £18/$32229p, 1986, reprinted 1994, 2011

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Satires IP. M. BrownPB: 9780856685309, £18/$32208p, 1993, reprinted 2007

Satires II F. MueckePB: 9780856685323, £18/$32243p, 1993

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Book XXXVI P. G. WalshPB: 9780856685248, £18/$32134p, 1991

Book XXXVII P. G. WalshPB: 9780856685743, £18/$32HB: 9780856685736, £9.95/$14.98*224p, 1997

Book XXXVIII P. G. WalshPB: 9780856685996, £18/$32HB: 9780856685989, £9.95/$14.98*224p, 1994


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Book XXXIX P. G. WalshPB: 9780856686269, £18/$32HB: 9780856686252, £45/$80194p, 1994

Book XL P. G. WalshPB: 9780856686733, £18/$32HB: 9780856686726, £9.95/$14.98* 208p, 1996

Books XXXVI–XL (Set)P. G. WalshPB: 9780856686832, £72/$125Five vols, 197p, 224p, 224p,200p, 208p, 1991–1996

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Daphnis and ChloeJ. R. MorganPB: 9780856685637, £18/$32HB: 9780856685620, £45/$80200p, 2004, reprinted 2010

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Civil War VIIIR. MayerPB: 9780856681769, £18/$32197p, 1981, reprinted 2007

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De Rerum Natura IIIM. BrownPB: 9780856686955, £18/$32HB: 9780856686948, £9.95/$14.98*240p, 1997, reprinted 2007

De Rerum Natura IVJ. GodwinPB: 9780856683091, £18/$32170p, 1986, reprinted 2008

De Rerum Natura VM. R. GalePB: 9780856688898, £18/$32HB: 9780856688843, £50/$85222p, 2008, reprinted 2012

De Rerum Natura VIJ. GodwinPB: 9780856685002, £18/$32200p, 1991

mArtiAl The Epigrams, Book VP. HowellPB: 9780856685903, £18/$32172p, 1995, reprinted 2007

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Amores IIJ. BoothPB: 9780856681752, £18/$32198p, 1991, reprinted 1999, 2007

Metamorphoses I–IVD. E. HillPB: 9780856682575, £18/$32263p, 1985, reprinted 2010

Metamorphoses V–VIII D. E. HillPB: 9780856683954, £18/$32248p, 1992, reprinted 2008

Metamorphoses IX–XII D. E. HillPB: 9780856686467, £18/$32HB: 9780856686450, £9.95/$14.98*240p, 1999, reprinted 2011

Metamorphoses XIII–XV and Indexes to Metamorphoses I–XV D. E. HillPB: 9780856687334, £18/$32HB: 9780856687327, £45/$80256p, 2000, reprinted 2012

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The Satires J. R. JenkinsonPB: 9780856681738, £18/$32131p, 1981

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Bacchides J. A. BarsbyPB: 9780856682278, £18/$32HB: 9780856682261, £9.95/$14.98*202p, 1982, reprinted 2008

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Correspondence with Trajan from Bithynia (Epistles X) W. WilliamsPB: 9780856684081, £18/$32176p, 1990, reprinted 2007

propertius Book I R. J. BakerPB: 9780856687303, £18/$32HB: 9780856687297, £9.95/$14.98*208p, 2001

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The War Against Jugurtha M. Comber and C. BalmacedaPB: 9780856686382, £18/$32HB: 9780856686375, £9.95/$14.98*290p, 2008

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Four Dialogues C. D. N. CostaPB: 9780856685613, £18/$32HB: 9780856685606, £9.95/$14.98*218p, 1994, reprinted 2007

17 Letters C. D. N. CostaPB: 9780856683558, £18/$32234p, 1988, reprinted 2007

Medea H. HinePB: 9780856686924, £18/$32218p, 2000, reprinted 2007

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Lives of Galba, Otho and Vitellius D. C. A. ShotterPB: 9780856685385, £18/$32HB: 9780856685378, £9.95/$14.98*198p, 1994

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Annals IVD. C. A. ShotterPB: 9780856684043, £18/$32206p, 1989

Annals V and VI R. MartinPB: 9780856687228, £18/$32HB: 9780856687211, £9.95/$14.98*250p, 2000

Germania H. W. BenarioPB: 9780856687174, £18/$32123p, 1999

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The Brothers A. S. GratwickPB: 9780856687235, £18/$32HB: 9780856683152, £9.95/$14.98*256p, 1987, new edition 2000

The Eunuch A. J. BrothersPB: 9780856685132, £18/$32HB: 9780856685125, £9.95/$14.98*240p, 2000

The Mother-in-Law S. IrelandPB: 9780856683749, £18/$32170p, 1990

Phormio R. MaltbyPB: 9780856686078, £19.99/$34HB: 9780856686061, £50/$85160p, 2012

The Self Tormentor A. J. BrothersPB: 9780856683039, £18/$32229p, 1988 * Limited numbers of hardbacks are available at sale price

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De Civitate Dei III & IV P. G. WalshPB: 9780856687587, £22.50/$35HB: 9780856687594, £9.95/$14.98*251p, 2007

De Civitate Dei VP. G. WalshPB: 9780856687938, £22.50/$35HB: 9780856687983, £50/$85160p, 2009

De Civitate Dei VI & VII P. G. WalshPB: 9780856688799, £22.50/$35HB: 9780856688782, £50/$85220p, 2010

De Civitate Dei VIII & IX P. G. WalshPB: 9780856688539, £24.99/$38HB: 9780856688546, £50/$85280p, 2012

De Civitate Dei X P. G. WalshPB: 9780856688485, £24.99/$38HB: 9780856688492, £50/$85240p, forthcoming 2013

De Civitate Dei Books XI & XII P. G. WalshPB: 9780856688713, £24.99/$38HB: 9780856688720, £50/$85300p, forthcoming 2014

De Civitate Dei Books XIII & XIV P. G. WalshPB: 9780856688829, £24.99/$38HB: 9780856688775, £50/$85forthcoming 2015

Soliloquies and Immortality of the Soul G. WatsonPB: 9780856685064, £18/$32224p, 1990, reprinted 2008

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The Trojan War I-III A. K. BatePB: 9780856682957, £18/$32196p, 1986, reprinted 2007, 2012

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C. W. GrocockPB: 9780856682933, £18/$32240p, 1985

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The History of English Affairs, Book 1 P. G. WalshPB: 9780856683053, £18/$32208p, 1988, reprinted 2011

The History of English Affairs, Book 2 P. G. Walsh PB: 9780856684746, £18/$32HB: 9780856684739, £9.95/$14.98*208p, 2007



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CICERO: Verrines II.1

Cicero’s first major triumph was the prosecution of Caius Verres for misgovernment in Sicily. This speech was given in the second part of the trial and shows the development of Cicero’s rhetoric. This edition communicates the literary flavour of the original and discusses the historical and political background to the trial, with examination of noteworthy textual cruces and problems of interpretation.

T. n. MiTChell was formerly Professor of Latin and Provost of Trinity College Dublin.

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JOSEPH OF EXETER: TROJAN WAR I-IIIJoseph wrote his epic around the year 1180, and revised it at the court of Henry II of England where he had obtained some sort of post through the influence of his uncle, Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury. The work is one of a series of texts in Latin and Anglo-Norman, apparently commissioned by the King, helping to trace back the Plantagenet line to the Trojans and follows on from the Anglo-Norman Roman de Troie written by Benoît de Sainte-Maure in the 1160s.

Joseph rejected the Vergilian ‘mendacious poetic’ account of the war in favour of the ‘historical’ narrative of Dares Phrygius, an ‘eye-witness’ of the events. This version not only coincided with the Plantagenets’ preference for historical material but also presented Aeneas, the founder of the Romans, as a traitor. In Henry’s struggles with the Pope over the Investiture problem any slur on the origins of the Romans could be useful ammunition.

Books I-III cover the first Trojan war when Laomedon was besieged, the Judgement of Paris and the Rape of Helen. In style Joseph closely resembles Lucan whom he had read “with an eye that allowed little to escape” (Raby), yet his imitation is far from servile. Sedgwick even goes so far as to say that Joseph “surpasses the bold constructions of Silver Latin”. Moreover, Joseph restores to epic the gods that Lucan had banished. The result is an epic that in the 17th century was still considered to have been written in the classical period.

Further titles in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series:

William of Newburgh: History of English Affairs Book I (Walsh)William of Newburgh: History of English Affairs Book II (Walsh)

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