Bøger af A. J. Bowen

Aeschylus' Suppliant Women begins with a procession of girls, dressed in foreign costume and carrying boughs - tokens of supplication - arriving in Argos. Fugitives from Egypt they are in flight from their cousins, the sons of Aegyptus, who want them as wives and they seek asylum from King Pelasgus.

Xenophon's Symposium is a work as useful for its Greek as it is precious for its content, a document of prime importance for the study of classical Greek society. This edition offers an unprecedented amount of help with the language, a large vocabulary and notes on the content. Greek text with facing translation, introduction and commentary.