A World of Heroes: Selections from Homer, Herodotus and Sophocles

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A World of Heroes: Selections from Homer, Herodotus and SophoclesA World of Heroes is a reader designed for students who have just completed an introductory course in ancient Greek and wish to read substantial passages of ancient authors in the original language. It introduces three of ancient Greece's most important authors, Homer, Herodotus and Sophocles, and includes such gripping and influential stories as the battle of Thermopylai (from Herodotus' Histories); the death of Hektor (the Iliad) and the fall of

this is the perfect way to learn about Roman history and key institutions that enabled power

Book XIII of Ovid's Metamorphoses presents a wide variety of brilliant episodes

including recent discoveries such as Simonides' Plataea elegy and Archilochus' Telephus elegy

the book discusses the provenance of the letters

With stylistic brilliance

102–44 BCE)

Φαίνεται πως η τεράστια

Hercule Poirot

This edition gathers work by ten poets: two iambic (Semonides and Hipponax)

It was the first Roman comedy produced after antiquity (at Florence in 1476) and the first translated into English

302–347 and 371–399

sometimes tragic