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Plato: SymposiumOxford World's Classics In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high society dinner party in Athens in 416 BC at which the guests including the comic poet Aristophanes and, of course, Plato's mentor Socrates each deliver a short speech in praise of love. The sequence of dazzling speeches culminates in Socrates' famous account of the views of Diotima, a prophetess who taught him that love is our means of trying to attain goodness.

there can be no after-life

Camps' four-volume edition of Propertius' Elegies was originally published by Cambridge University Press

Volume X: Generation

A truly Protean figure

the role of the narrator

Livy devotes closer attention than previously to Roman expansion in northern Italy and to warfare in Spain

In the three classic works in this volume

The commentary gives careful and critical attention to the arguments deployed by Plato against poets and artists

Caecilius (born probably in the 220s)

Να δυναμώνει και να χαμηλώνει

κι έκλεισε τα μάτια του

Yet it is a work as useful for its Greek as it is precious for its content