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This is the only English edition of The City of God with Latin text and facing-page translation as well as a detailed introduction and commentary. In Books XIII- XIV, Augustine turns to the problem of death as punishment for the sin of disobedience, resumes his attack on the Platonists and pursues topics emerging from consideration of Adam's sin.

This volume completes this distinguished edition of Metamorphoses . This volume completes Donald Hills distinguished edition to the Metamorphoses. Of the pevious volume it was said: It is all we could hope for, with excellent translation, fuller understanding from the notes and an extensive bibliography.

Latin text with facing translation plus notes and commentary.

As the earliest surviving European drama, Persians is of incalculable interest to students of ancient literature. This edition offers facing translation, commentary and notes that focus on the visual and aural effects Aeschylus created, his extraordinarily rich imagery, and the play's unique contribution to Athenian democratic ideology.

Rational persuasion and appeal to an audience's emotions are elements of most literature, but they are found in their purest form in oratory. The speeches written by the Greek Orators for delivery in law-courts, deliberative councils and assemblies enjoyed an honoured literary status, and rightly so, for the best of them have great vitality.

Livy is a popular author in schools and universities in all areas of the English speaking world.

The fourth book of Tacitus' Annals recounts one of the most turbulent periods of Tiberius' reign: the climax of the conflict between the emperor and Agrippina's family. This edition offers the Latin text with a new facing translation, commentary and a group of introductory essays which highlight the book's main themes and personalities.

Dio Cassius' Roman History contains the fullest surviving account of the reign of Augustus. This edition of Books 53-55 covers the years 28-5 BC and includes Dio's extended discussion of the constitutional settlement of 27 BC and the imperial system it inaugurated. Ancient Greek text with facing translation, introduction and commentary.

In The City of God (De Civitate Dei), St Augustine replies to the pagans, who attributed the recent sack of Rome (AD410), to the Christian religion and its prohibition of the worship of the pagan gods. This edition of Books I & II provides Latin text with facing-page translation, introduction and commentary.

Recent classical scholarship has seen a revived interest in post-Aristotelian Greek philosophy and Cicero's contribution to our knowledge of it. Of Cicero's major works in this field the Tusculan Disputations is perhaps the most approachable. Book I discusses whether or not death is an evil. Latin text with translation and commentary.

This edition of Augustine's The City of God is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this influential document. Books VI and VII focus on the figure of Terentius Varro, a man revered by Augustine's pagan contemporaries. Latin text with facing translation, introduction and commentary.

Sophocles' Antigone is among the greatest of all works of Greek literature, and is often the play read first by those beginning to study Greek tragedy. This edition offers the text with facing translation and commentary, and an introduction including an account of the myth, a survey of the main interpretative issues, and a bibliography.