Greek Poetry of the Imperial Period: An Anthology

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Greek Poetry of the Imperial Period: An AnthologyCambridge Greek and Latin Classics This book contains a selection of pagan Greek poetic texts ranging in date from the first to the sixth century AD. It makes easily accessible for the first time work by poets such as Quintus Smyrnaeus, Nonnus, Musaeus and Babrius hitherto neglected in Classical syllabuses. Genres represented include epic, epyllion, didactic, epigram, lyric and the verse fable. There is a brief general introduction, and in addition

This edition makes a demanding and rewarding text more accessible and more intelligible

the metre traditionally associated with lampoon

Tacitus' account is sharply critical of the emperors' excesses and fearful for the future of imperial Rome

Thematic Study: Myth and Religion by Ben Greenley

This second edition is brought in line with the current OCR specifications

which elucidates the text and makes clear how Plato achieves his philosophical and literary objectives

some call for a personal response and therefore lend themselves to class discussion

De amicitia provides both a striking analysis of the conflicts between personal and civic loyalty and a strong statement about the close links between friendship

What are citizens willing to die for

Making full use of recent Sophoclean scholarship

απόλυτα ερωτευμένος

through these detailed studies

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