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	Estate Management and Symposium £8.99 Xenophon, Emily Baragwanath, Anthony Verity 9780198823513 Paperback 28 April 2022 Oxford World's Classics Xenophon recounted several Socratic dialogues which included his Symposium and Oeconomicus and both are concerned with Athenian private life. They are literary creations that reveal Xenophon as a skilled literary artist, an innovative thinker, and far from merely reflecting the conventional thinking of the world around him.
	Antigone and other Tragedies: Antigone, Deianeira, Electra £4.99 Sophocles, Oliver Taplin 9780192806864 Paperback 28 October 2021 Oxford World's Classics These original and distinctive verse translations convey the vitality of Sophocles' poetry and the vigour of the plays in performance, doing justice to both the sound of the poetry and the theatricality of the tragedies.
	Lucian, True History: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary £18.99 Diskin Clay, James H. Brusuelas 9780198789659 Paperback 29 July 2021 This textbook for undergraduate and graduate students provides a lively and accessible translation of Lucian's True History. It is accompanied by an extensive commentary, which explains historical references and offers help translating difficult words and phrases.
	Horace's Odes £18.99 Richard Tarrant 9780195156768 Paperback 16 October 2020 Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature
	Sophocles' Electra £21.99 Hanna M. Roisman 9780190461393 Paperback 23 April 2020
	Sophocles: Oedipus the King: A New Verse Translation £12.99 David Kovacs 9780198854845 Paperback 23 April 2020 Sophocles' great masterpiece, Oedipus the King, is here translated into highly-polished English verse alongside an introduction and notes to the translation which seek to make his achievements in both plot and language accessible to students at graduate, undergraduate, and secondary school level.
	Homer: A Very Short Introduction £8.99 Barbara Graziosi 9780199589944 Paperback 28 March 2019 Very Short Introductions The Iliad and the Odyssey are the cornerstones of Western literature, inspiring artists, writers, philosophers, musicians, playwrights, and film-makers throughout history. Barbara Graziosi introduces Homer's key works and discusses the main literary, historical, and archaeological issues at the heart of Homeric studies.
	Homer, Odyssey I: Edited with an Introduction, Translation, Commentary, and Glossary £19.95 Simon Pulleyn 9780198824206 Paperback 20 November 2018 Offering the first full-length commentary on Odyssey I in English since the 1980s, this new edition with facing translation aims to offer students an accessible yet authoritative introduction to the history and style of Homeric epic alongside detailed philological and linguistic analysis that will be of equal use to advanced scholars.
	The Jewish War £10.99 Josephus, Martin Hammond, Martin Goodman 9780199646029 Paperback 23 February 2017 Oxford World's Classics In AD 70 the city of Jerusalem was destroyed by Roman forces after a 6 month siege, the world-famous temple burnt to the ground. This was the disastrous outcome of a Jewish revolt against Roman domination beginning in AD 66 with high hopes and early success, but soon became mired in factional conflict, at its most extreme within Jerusalem itself.
	Oedipus the King and Other Tragedies: Oedipus the King, Aias, Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus £8.99 Sophocles, Oliver Taplin 9780192806857 Paperback 10 March 2016 Oxford World's Classics This original and distinctive verse translation of four of Sophocles' plays conveys the vitality of his poetry and the vigour of the plays as performed showpieces, encouraging the reader to relish the sound of the spoken verse and the potential for song within the lyrics.
	Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature Fourth Edition £35.99 L. D. Reynolds, N. G. Wilson 9780199686339 Paperback 05 December 2013 It explores how the texts from classical Greece and Rome have survived and gives an account of the reasons why it was thought worthwhile to preserve them for future generations. In this 4th edition adjustments have been made to the text and the notes have been revised in order to take account of advances in scholarship over the last twenty years.
	The Satyricon £9.99 Petronius, P. G. Walsh 9780199539215 Paperback 26 March 2009 Oxford World's Classics
	Classical Literary Criticism £8.99 D. A. Russell, Michael Winterbottom 9780199549818 Paperback 10 July 2008 Oxford World's Classics