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Autor:
S. Douglas Olson
A collection of over 200 of the most interesting and important fragments of Greek comedy, accompanied by a commentary, an extensive introduction discussing the history of comic genre, a series of appendixes on the individual poets, the inscriptional
Autor:
Marinos Yeroulanos
'Human wisdom is of little or no value', wrote Plato in his Apology. And yet the ancient Greeks, including Plato himself, more than any other people of antiquity were fascinated by the pursuit of the wisdom they called philosophia. That search for kn
Autor:
Menander, Monaco, David Gregory
The Sentences of the Syriac Menander appears in two Syriac manuscripts in the British Library, a full version in one codex, and a far shorter version, only a small fraction thereof, in another. This book presents a commentary on the text in its compl
Autor:
Bill Bradfield
'Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.'—Cicero'Nowadays, flattery wins friends, truth hatred.'—TerenceMemorable quotes from Socrates, Euripides, Plutarch, Sophocles, Marcus Aurelius, and other ancient poets, playwrigh