The Fragments of Sophocles (Cambridge Library Collection - Classics, Volume 3)
Sir Richard Jebb (1841-1905) was the most distinguished classicist of his generation, a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and University Orator, subsequently Professor of Greek at Glasgow University and finally Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge, and a Member of Parliament for the University. At his death, his planned volumes of the fragments of Sophocles, which would complete his edition of the complete plays and fragments, were not ready for publication, and the final editing of these...
Award winning Paul Theroux has written many iconic shorter pieces of travel writing which have been collected together in the captivating Sunrise with Seamonsters. Sunrise with Seamonsters is Paul Theroux's immensely entertaining collection of his shorter writings, ranging from sketches to critical essays. Each piece marks a new 'confrontation with the world' and throws new light on the political and social climate of diverse cultures such as those of New York, Singapore, Ireland and Malawi. Oth...
The Oxford History of Classical Reception (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers. Covering the full range of English literature from the early Middle Ages to the present day, OHCREL both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge new research, employing an international team of expert contributors for each of the five v...
Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park - Primary Source Edition
by James Willard Schultz
Poetic Autonomy in Ancient Rome
by Assistant Professor of Classics Luke Roman
Climbing through the recesses of a mine, an English man falls into a deep chasm and finds himself suddenly trapped in a subterranean world inhabited by an ancient race of advanced beings. From Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth to Chris Marker's La Jetee, subterranean worlds have been a source of both fascination and fear for the literary imagination and The Coming Race is no exception. An evolutionary fantasy first published in 1871, the story draws upon ideas of Darwinism to desc...
Comedies. Translated Into English, Together With the Original Latin From the Best Editions, on the Opposite Pages Also Critical and Explanatory Notes, to Which is Prefixed a Disertation on the Life and Writings of Terence, Containing an Inquiry Into...; 2
by Thomas 1703-1756 Cooke
Cicero: Tusculan Disputations II & V (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)
The Fifth Tusculan Disputation is the finest of the five books, its nearest rival being the First (also edited in this series). The middle three books, represented in this edition by the Second, are, as the author clearly intended, less elevated, though still showing Cicero's flair for elegant and lively exposition, and providing much valuable information about the teaching of the main Hellenistic philosophical schools, especially the Stoics. They argue that the perfect human life, or complete h...
A Book of Old English Ballads; With an Accompaniment of Decorative Drawings
by George Wharton Edwards and Hamilton Wright Mabie
Hecuba (The Greek Tragedy in New Translations) (BCP Greek Texts)
by Euripides
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