by Isocrates, Carey, Christopher, Usher, Stephen, Antiphon, Edwards, M., (Michael), Lysias, Apollodoros, Demosthenes
fromClassical texts
by Carey, Christopher, Apollodoros, Demosthenes
fromClassical texts
by Carey, Christopher, (Classicist), Demosthenes, Apollodorus
fromClassical texts
by Carey, Christopher, Apollodorus, Demosthenes
fromClassical texts
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 asylu…
by Menander,, of Athens, Menander,, of Athens
fromClassical texts
What reason has an educated man for going to the theatre, except to see Menander? Thus the judgement of Aristophanes of Byzantium, & in later antiquity the social comedies of Menander ranked second in popularity only to the epics of Homer. Yet for centuries thereafter the plays …
'What reason has an educated man for going to the theatre, except to see Menander'?Thus the judgement of Aristophanes of Byzantium, and in later antiquity the social comedies of Menander ranked second in popularity only to the epics of Homer.
The Statesman is Plato's neglected political work, but it is crucial for an understanding of the development of his political thinking. In some respects it continues themes from the Republic, particularly the importance of knowledge as entitlement to rule. But there are also cha…
Until now no English translation existed of the Statesman (one of Plato's central works on politics, and on much else besides) which was both accurate and usable: nor was there a modern commentary which would help the reader through the argument, which was, in some parts, likely…