Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 515 p. The title of this work literally means The Book of Catullus of Verona and is a careful perusal by Robinson Ellis of the oeuvre of the Roman poet, who is generally thought to have lived between 84 and 54 BCE. In this second edition of 1878, Ellis (1834–1913), whose monumental Commentary on Catullus is also reissued in this series,...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 342 p. First published between 1880 and 1885, Joseph B. Mayor’s three-volume edition of De Natura Deorum places Cicero’s speculative theological dialogue in the context of the arguments of the Epicureans, the Stoics, the Academics, and their predecessors. This volume presents Cicero’s Book 3, which takes up questions of Roman divination,...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 413 p. A leading classical scholar from the University of Oxford, Henry Furneaux (1829–1900) specialised in the writings of the Roman historian Tacitus. Although not originally titled the Annals, this work acquired the name for the style of history it presents, dealing with events year by year, rather than thematically. The Annals cover the...
Chicago. Chicago University Press, 1989. 260 p. The present work is the outgrowth of several years’ experience with the third semester of elementary Latin at Hunter College of the City of New York. In this course, reading material similar to, and in considerable part identical with, that presented here has been found not only to be instructive and interesting in itself but also...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 345 p. Published in Cambridge in 1864, H.A.J. Munro’s two-volume critical edition of the Roman poet Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura (’On the Nature of the Universe’), represents one of the finest contributions to classical scholarship of the nineteenth century. Lucretius’ didactic poem, written in hexameters, is divided into six books and explains...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 445 p. Published in Cambridge in 1864, H.A.J. Munro’s two-volume critical edition of the Roman poet Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura (’On the Nature of the Universe’), represents one of the finest contributions to classical scholarship of the nineteenth century. Lucretius’ didactic poem, written in hexameters, is divided into six books and explains...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 319 p. This is the second edition of Virgil’s works by the German classical philologist Otto Ribbeck, published in Leipzig in 1894-5. It is solely a work of textual criticism, in which Ribbeck assembled what he believed to be the most reliable edition from different authorities. While it includes no commentary on the text by the editor, it is...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 525 p. First published between 1858 and 1871, John Conington’s lucid exposition of the complete works of Virgil continues to set the standard for commentary on the Virgilian corpus. After decades out of print, this three-volume edition is once again available to readers, allowing Conington’s subtle investigations of language, context, and...
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