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Thucydides: Book IIThis book, like its companions on Thucydides books I and IV, is published primarily for students approaching a book of Thucydides for the first time or studying the Peloponnesian War in a more general way. The Greek text and notes are those of E. C. Marchant, originally published in 1891, and the introduction is by Thomas Wiedemann, who takes into account the needs of the modern student and up to date research on Thucydides.

Perhaps the strangest - and most strikingly modern - work to survive from the ancient world

and Sappho - the only historical figure portrayed here - describes her passion for the cruelly rejecting Phaon

or can be plausibly inferred

The commentary concentrates on the elucidation of historical points and on the analysis of character and motive

this remains a splendid edition - one for which more advanced Virgilians still have every reason to be thankful

As a historian of the early Roman empire he is paramount

The book is completed by an Index of Names

Amores and Tristia

'An exceptional achievement' ELODIE HARPER

Electra portrays a young woman planning to avenge the brutal death of her father at the hands of her mother

Seneca’s soaring prose captures his wonder at that gift

Cicero’s primary tactic was to blacken the character and reliability of Clodia