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Cicero
Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 65.00A new translation of, and commentary on, Cicero's defence of Publius Sestius against a charge of public violence. The speech provides any student of Rome with a fascinating way into the period and is also among the best introductions we have to traditional Republican values and ethics in action. - ;A new translation of, and commentary on, Cicero's... more...
Rhetorical Exercises from Late Antiquity
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 91.00The first translation of the Declamations and Preliminary Talks of the sixth-century sophist Choricius of Gaza. more...
Greek Tragedy in Vergil's Aeneid
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 71.00This is the first systematic study of the importance of Greek tragedy as a fundamental 'intertext' for Vergil's Aeneid. more...
Language, Sexuality, Narrative
Cambridge University Press 1984; US$ 46.00A close reading of the text concentrating on the developing meanings of words within the structuring of the play. more...
Author and Audience in Latin Literature
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 50.00Essays by distinguished scholars on the relationship between Latin authors and their audiences. more...
The Origins of Democratic Thinking
Cambridge University Press 1988; US$ 37.00Dr Farrar argues that the development of political theory accompanied the growth of democracy at Athens in the fifth century BC. more...
Virgil's Augustan Epic
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 50.00An examination of the main characters in the Aeneid. more...
Ovid's Lovers
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 32.00Compelling investigation of the question of the male/female relationship, which is central to Ovid's works. more...
Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 72.00Develops readings of Rome's historians Sallust, Livy and Tacitus in light of contemporary discussions of republicanism and rhetoric. more...
The Complete Sophocles, Volume I
Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 11.99Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. The tragedies collected... more...









