The Loeb Classical Library: The Persian Wars, Volume I : Books 1–2

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The Loeb Classical Library: The Persian Wars, Volume I : Books 1–2Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BC, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He traveled widely in most of Asia Minor, Egypt (as far as Aswan), North Africa, Syria, the country north of the Black Sea, and many parts of the Aegean Sea and the mainland of Greece. He lived, it seems, for some time in Athens, and in 443 went with other colonists to the new city Thurii (in South Italy), where he

the metre traditionally associated with lampoon

one of Sophocles' earliest plays)

at university and in adult education to use the course to their best advantage

human sacrifice

The Roman elite idealized farming and service to the state but treated many other occupations with suspicion or contempt

as well as from later editions: it renders explicit the material’s thematic organization

The only exam-board approved book for OCR's Greek AS and A-Level set text prescriptions for examination 2026–28 giving full Greek text

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Following on from the author's edition of Menander's Bad-Tempered Man ( dyskolos ) the present volume aims to provide readers with ready access to the playwright's consummate sophistication in dramatic technique through two

The last volume includes a comprehensive index

The line-by-line commentary in Volume 3 focuses on two widely read translations of the Aeneid Books 7–12 (in verse by Robert Fagles and in prose by David West)

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