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Plutarch: The Makers of RomePenguin Classics These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmen, whose lives span the earliest days of the Republic to the establishment of the Empire. Selected from Plutarch's Roman Lives, they include prominent figures who achieved fame for their pivotal roles in Roman history, such as soldierly Marcellus, eloquent Cato and cautious Fabius. Here too are vivid portraits of

setting the poems in their cultural context and drawing on the scholarship of leading academics to explore the poetry

and brief entries on lost playwrights

These thirteen essays combine classical scholars' interest in theatrical production with a growing interdisciplinary inquiry into the urban contexts of literary production

A Photographic history of classical Greece

as well as full discussion of the historical background and the larger social and cultural issues relevant to the speech

The Introduction sets Juvenal in the history of Roman Satire

This volume contains a narrative adapted entirely from ancient authors

but reports a discussion 'concerning the (ideal) orator' that supposedly took place in 90 BCE

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Isocrates is in three volumes

and proves the infinity of the universe and of its two ultimate constituents

This book will make fascinating reading for students

all in Greek

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