Series: Greek Texts

This book offers some 800-850 lines of the Anabasis in Greek with English summaries of the intervening passages to give an idea of the whole of Xenophon's exciting adventure. Notes at the foot of each page assist with content and language, and a consolidated vocabulary which assumes only basic grammatical knowledge. The book was specifically designed to offer a number...

This accessible edition for students brings the Agamemnon, Aeschylus' opening play in the Oresteia trilogy, to life for first-time readers. A hugely popular play in antiquity with a rich reception history to the present day, this is an essential play for students of classics, drama, and the canon of Western literature. Leah Himmelhoch provides a helpful guide for students and...

This useful edition includes Ferguson's introduction to the history of Greek theatre along with full notes and vocabulary. Euripides: Hippolytus offers readers a comprehensive guide to understanding this significant work of classical literature. With the inclusion of Ferguson's insights into ancient Greek theatre, readers are provided with valuable context, enhancing their appreciation of the text. The edition's detailed notes and...

This edition provides a full and representative selection of all early Greek lyric (omitting Pindar, who requires his own volume), elegiac and iambic poetry. First published in 1967 in the 'red Macmillan' series, it was reprinted by BCP in 1982 with addenda to the bibliography and an appendix reproducing a text of three substantial 'new' papyrus fragments by Archilochus, Stesichorus...

This accessible edition for students presents Herodotus as one of the most fascinating and colourful authors from the ancient world. Book III of Herodotus’ nine-book work is one of the richest in its exploration of themes, such as the practices and customs of different peoples and the nature of political power, issues still much debated today. This commentary illuminates the...

Litigants in ancient Athens were obliged to represent themselves, and cases were decided on the basis of speeches delivered by the opposing parties. Inexperienced litigants would turn for help to professional speech writers, and one of the leading exponents of the art of speech-writing in late fifth- and early fourth-century Athens was Lysias. Lysias: Five Speeches: 1, 12, 19, 22,...

These two books of the Odyssey provide an ideal introduction to the poem, illustrating Odysseus' cunning intelligence at its best as he gains acceptance in the court of the Phaeacians, and, above all, the subtly drawn character of Nausicaa. This edition replaces the much-used one by G.M. Edwards (1914). It contains text (now unexpurgated) and vocabulary, expanded commentary, and a...

First published in the outstanding and long-running 'red Macmillan' series in 1948 and revised in 1958 and 1962 (with, for example, a new section on Mycenaean Greek in relation to Homer), this second volume on the Odyssey has remained the standard edition used by upper school and university students to guide their early reading of the epic. The introduction covers...

This edition of Iliad I provides an admirable introduction to a first reading of Homer. The book deals with the origin of Achilles’ wrath, which gives rise to the poem’s main plot. It introduces principal characters such as Odysseus and Nestor and adumbrates the role the gods are to play in the story. This edition provides text with notes on...

This edition contains the Greek text, and is supplemented by an introduction giving the necessary background and setting Book III in the context of the Iliad as a whole, explanatory notes and a vocabulary.