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		Euripides: Hippolytus (1964)
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		WS Barrett (Edited by)
		Oxford University Press 2001 453 pages		Qty
		Hardback 019814167X
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	Euripides' great tragedy tells the story of Hippolytos, the son of Theseus, of how his stepmother Phaidra falls in love with him and of his death, caused by a bull from the sea sent by Poseidon in answer to Theseus' prayers. Barrett presents a Greek text of the play based on collations of ten medieval manuscripts and all known papyri, with an introduction that includes detailed studies of the legend of Hippolytos and the history of the text, notes and commentary. (1964)
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		Lucretius: De Rerum Natura
		(Three volumes)		Sandpiper Editions
		Cyril Bailey
		Oxford University Press 2001 1790 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198144059
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	In his great didactic poem 'On the Nature of Things', Lucretius sought to release humankind from the fear of death and the tyranny of religion through the philosophy of Epicurus. 'Touching all with the muses' charm,' he set out in verse Epicurean atomic theory and views on the nature of the soul, mortality and psychological phenomena, and he presented an Epicurean view of the natural world and the rise of human civilization. Bailey's classic edition comprises a substantial prolegomena dealing with the poem's sources, structure, metre etc., the Latin text with literal English translation and a full commentary focusing on Epicurean philosophy and Lucretius' treatment of it. Our own Sandpiper reprint. (1947/1972)
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		Homeri Ilias
		(Three volumes)		Sandpiper Editions
		Thomas W Allen
		Oxford University Press 2000 1072 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0199241775
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	TW Allen, once described by ER Dodds in a discussion of Homeric scholarship as the 'most learned and formidable of the English unitarians', began his scrupulous collation of the papyri and medieval manuscripts of the Iliad in the 1880s and in 1920, he co-edited with DB Munro the Oxford Classical text upon which the Robert Fagles translation is based. The present work comprises the complete Greek text with a far more elaborate apparatus and a volume of Prolegomena. (1931)
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		Early Latin Verse
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		WM Lindsay
		Oxford University Press 2000 350 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198143486
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	"Words and letters are the dry bones of a language. It is the tone of utterance that breathes life into them." In this attempt to discover the tone of that utterance, Lindsay criticizes the 'layer rubbish' deposited on Roman dramatic verse by previous scholars which which obstructed any attempt to recover the intonation of Roman speech. His study is the classic work on metre and prosody in prosody in Plautus and deals particularly with the law of 'breves breviantes or iambic shortening, and the relation of verse-ictus with the accent of ordinary speech. (1922, reprinted 1968)
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		Fragmenta Hesiodea
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		R Mekelbach; ML West
		Oxford University Press 1999 258 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198141718
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	This is a critical edition of the extant remains of the lost narrative and didactic poems anciently ascribed to Hesiod. It incorporates material from the latest papyri published before 1967, particularly in relation to the Catalogue of Women. For all 11 works, which include the Melampodia, The Marriage of Ceyx, The Idaean Dactyles and the Astronomy, the editors give improved texts, plus new interpretations of many fragments. In addition to the usual critical apparatus (in Latin) there are brief notes on subject matter and uncertain attributions. (1967)
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		Herodotus
		Father of History		Sandpiper Editions
		John L Myres
		Oxford University Press 1999 324 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0199240213
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	In this study Myers sets out to examine the claim that Herodotus is the 'father of history' in the light of his motives, methods and literary style. Special attention is paid to the larger structure of Herodotus' narrative, the way in which he incorporates the epic, Ionian logos, Attic drama and rhetorical speech in a 'fresh literary form,' and how the structure of the work reflects the balanced 'rhythm' of Greek representational art. Myers also describes Herodotus' life and travels, and discusses the principal topics of the 'Histories' and how they appear to modern historians. (1953)
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		Digenes Akristes
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		John Mavrogordato
		Oxford University Press 1999 358 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0199240205
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	A romantic epic from the heroic age of medieval Greece, 'Digenes Akrites' celebrates the parentage, education, exploits and death of Twyborn the Borderer. Son of an Arabian emir and a Greek general's daughter, Twyborn grew up in the Roman Empire and, after capturing his own Greek wife, went to live as a nomad and fighter in the frontier lands. Eventually he settled and built a palace on the banks of the Euphrates, only to die soon after. This edition presents the complete text of the poem with a facing literal translation, critical introduction and commentary. (1956)
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		Porphyrius the charioteer
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		Alan Cameron
		Oxford University Press 1998 314 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0198148054
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	Porphyrius Calliopas was the greatest hero of the 6th century Byzantine hippodrome, celebrated in the Anthology and in monumental reliefs. Only two bases of monuments to Porphyrius survive, the second found in 1963. Cameron presents a full study of this second base, elucidating the iconography, explaining the inscriptions and also reassessing the first base. From the evidence of the bases and epigrams, he is able to reconstruct the careers of Porphyrius and fellow charioteers, exploring their fame and material rewards. [1973]
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		Galen on Anatomical Procedures
		Translation of the Surviving Books with Introduction and Notes		Sandpiper Editions
		Charles Singer
		Oxford University Press 1998 316 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0199240167
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	A practical work describing methods of dissection and physiological experiment, 'Anatomical Procedures' is a transcription of lectures given in Rome in 177 CE. There is no comparable work in ancient literature and none more influential in the history of modern anatomy. Singer provides a translation of the surviving Greek text (Books I-IX) and in his introduction discusses the various schools of medicine in Imperial Rome, the problems of translating a work written without an existing technical vocabulary, and Galen's use of Rhesus monkeys. (1956)
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		Social and Economic History of the Hellenistic World
		(Three volumes)		Sandpiper Editions
		Michael Rosztovtzeff
		Oxford University Press 1998 1931 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0198142307
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	Widely regarded as a landmark study of the Hellenistic period, Rostovtzeff's 'Social and Economic History' has been described as having 'defined the fundamental characteristics of Greek society in the centuries after Alexander the great.' Drawing not just on written sources, but on extensive archaeological and numismatic evidence, Rostovtzeff traces the development of social and economic phenomena in the light of the political, constitutional and cultural developments of the era. In three volumes, the third consisting of detailed notes on sources. (1941)
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		The External Evidence for Interpolation in Homer
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		GM Bolling
		Oxford University Press 1998 272 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198142765
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	In the quest for the original Homeric text, Bolling's strategy is to begin, not with an 'Ur-text' as some earlier scholars had attempted, but with the poems as they appear at the beginning of our tradition, and to 'remove the accretions stratum by stratum, as in the excavation of a buried temple'. He attempts to reconstruct the earlier texts of the Iliad and Odyssey by not only identifying and eliminating interpolations, but by understanding the traditions of the earlier interpolators and editors and thus establishing a standard for future work. (1925)
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		Iambi et Elkegi Graeci
		Ante Alexandrum Cantati. Two volumes		Sandpiper Editions
		ML West
		Oxford University Press 1998 550 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198152663
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	First published in 1972, and thoroughly revised in 1992, this two- volume work is widely recognised as the standard critical edition of the early Greek iambic and elegiac poets. Major additions to the original work are, in volume I, the Cologne Epode of Archilochus; and in volume II, important fragments of Simonides' elegies, fragments of Tyrtaeus and of the comic poem Margites attributed to Homer. Greek text with critical apparatus in Latin.
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		The Interpretation of Mycenaean Greek Texts
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		LR Palmer
		Oxford University Press 1998 502 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198131445
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	Intended as an introduction to the information contained in the Linear B texts from Mycenaean Greek sites and addressed to the non- specialist, this book provides a selection of the more interesting texts with a full commentary. Palmer's interpretation is by combinatory analysis rather than the purely etymological method used by earlier scholars. An introduction deals with epigraphy, decipherment and the Mycenaean language, together with questions of geography, social structure, economy and religion. (1963)
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		Western Aristocracies and Imperial Court
		AD 364-425		Sandpiper Editions
		John Matthews
		Oxford University Press 1998 427 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198148178
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	This study focuses on the relationship between the public and private lives of those involved in the politics of the western Roman empire, AD 364 to 425. Matthews explores four themes as especially significant: the diverse backgrounds of power, influence and personal experience from which men approached political life; the imperial court as a cultural as well as social institution; the Christianization of the governing classes; and the way in which the government progressively fell from public into private hands during this period. (1975)
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		Heraclides of Pontus
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		HB Gottschalk
		Oxford University Press 1998 184 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198140215
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	A follower of Plato, Heraclides of Pontus or Ponticus (c.388-315 BC) was famous in antiquity for his dialogues, but has attracted the attention of modern scholars by his obscure theory of matter and an astronomical hypothesis which seems to partly anticipate Aristarchus and Kepler. Gottschalk attempts to reconstruct the thought of Heraclides, beginning with a biographical introduction and discussing his dialogues, his corpuscular theory of matter, and his influential contribution to the legend of Pythagoras. (1980)
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