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An edition, fully accessible to undergraduates and graduate students, of the opening book of Homer's Iliad. Provides extensive help with language, meter, and style while also situating the poem in its historical and poetic contexts and helping readers to appreciate it as literature.

An indispensable tool for teaching and reading Herodotus' first book in Greek. The Commentary provides considerable help with matters of language. It also explores Herodotus' literary strategies, his value as a historian and the attention he devotes to the customs, beliefs, concrete realities, and myths of other cultures.

An indispensable tool for teaching and reading Herodotus' first book in Greek. The Commentary provides considerable help with matters of language. It also explores Herodotus' literary strategies, his value as a historian and the attention he devotes to the customs, beliefs, concrete realities, and myths of other cultures.

Euripides' Iphigeneia among the Taurians has been a popular and influential text from antiquity onwards. It is a suspenseful drama which explores themes of family loyalty, Greeks and barbarians, and the nature of the gods. The Introduction and Commentary specifically help undergraduates and above tackling the play in Greek.

"Offers intermediate Greek students a reliable, up-to-date introduction to Plato's most influential work. Plato's Greek is not difficult, but his ideas have generated considerable controversy. Book I serves as a dramatic introduction to them, with its memorable confrontation between Socrates and the sophist Thrasymachus over the nature of justice"--