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Cicero - Pro Sexto Roscio by Andrew R. Dyck (Editor)
Category: Reference | Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics Ser.
Sextus Roscius was murdered in Rome some months after the official end of the Sullan proscriptions on 1 June 81 BC. The case was tried early the following year with a young Cicero acting as defense counsel in his first criminal case for the accused son. Though a novice, Cicero was able to tap into the p ...Show more
Thucydides: the Peloponnesian War Book VI by Christopher Pelling
Category: History | Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics Ser.
In Books 6 and 7 Thucydides' narrative is, as Plutarch puts it, 'at its most emotional, vivid, and varied' as he describes the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413 BCE). Book 6 features tense debates both at Athens, with cautious Nicias no match for risk-taking Alcibiad ...Show more
Thucydides: the Peloponnesian War Book VII by Christopher Pelling (Editor)
Category: History | Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics Ser.
In Books 6 and 7 Thucydides' narrative is, as Plutarch puts it, 'at its most emotional, vivid, and varied' as he describes the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413 BCE). Book 7 opens with Athens seemingly on the point of victory, but the arrival of the Spartan commander ...Show more
Virgil - Eclogues by Virgil; Robert Coleman (Editor); P. E. Easterling (Contribution by); Philip Hardie (Contribution by); Richard Hunter (Contribution by); E. J. Kenney (Contribution by)
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics Ser.
Pastoral poetry was probably the creation of the Hellenistic poet Theocritus, and he was certainly its most distinguished exponent in Greek. Vergil not only transposed the spirit of Greek pastoral into an Italian setting, blending details from the life of his native countryside into the subsequent histo ...Show more
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