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Aristophanes: BirdsAris & Phillips Classical Texts Birds was produced at the City Dionysia in the spring of 414 BC. It differs from all the other fifth century plays of Aristophanes that survive in having no strong and obvious connection with a topical question of public interest, whether political (like Acharnians, Knights, Wasps, Peace and Lysistrata), literary theatrical (like Thesmophoriazusae and Frogs), or intellectual educational (like Clouds). It has, indeed, in

the longest of the Philippics (so-called after a series of speeches made against Philip of Macedon)

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay continues the story of the feisty and rebellious Lila and her lifelong friend

the salient features of the philosophy of Epicurus and the transmission of the text

The present volume aims to place Horace's Odes in their literary and historical context

When the war ended

Κι εγώ πια είμαι ανεύθυνη

In spite of its ancient reputation

covering a millennium of history

Usher has gathered a healthy litter of selections that reveal some of the ways Greeks and Romans thought about everything from lions

not to mention bad temper

are arranged according to difficulty

This edition will be invaluable for undergraduate and graduate students and scholars of Seneca's moral and intellectual development