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This handbook contains a classified list, with English equivalents, of 1500 words in common use among classical Greek historians, orators and philosophers. One hundred of these are dealt with at...

This student edition consists of the French text of Cocteau's Orph?e with English introduction and explanatory notes.Author: Jean CocteauPublisher: Bristol Classical PressPublication Date: Mar 31,...

A collection of short stories by 12 contemporary Spanish writers including Javier Cercas and Paloma Diaz-Mas. The settings vary from the exotic (Salome at the court of King Herod, the palace of a...

The remains of classical literature contain a good deal of scattered literary theory, however difficult it may be to divine a consistent view among the conflicting interests of scholars, moralists...

A Greek doctor serving at the court of the Persian king Artaxerxes II in the fifth century BC, Ctesias met travellers and visitors from the far eastern reaches of the Persian Empire, merchants from...

A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome sets out to answer some of the questions often posed by students, the general public, and even by teachers, about what it was actually like to live in Ancient Rome...

Demosthenes was punched in the face by Meidias in the theatre at Athens in 348 BC. His prosecution - a masterpiece of Greek oratorical prose - is one of the most intriguing forensic speeches to...

A leading figure of the Enlightenment, Denis Diderot fearlessly provoked the wrath of the French establishment through his writings. Aristocratic privilege, religious authority and obscurantism,...

This edition, one of the BCP Classics Companion Series, provides a translation and detailed commentary of the Greek and Macedonian narrative of Diodorus Book XVI. An outstanding general, statesman...

This indispensible text can justly be regarded as the forerunner to the great flowering of Dostoevsky's novels which was to follow. The first part of this unusual work is often treated as a...

This is a critical introduction to Dostoyevsky's work Professor of Peace concentrates on the four major novels, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Devils and The Brothers Karamazov. He analyses...

This book contains the Russian text of Dostoevsky's Dream of a Ridiculous Man, with an English language introduction and notes on the text.Author: F. M. DostoevskyPublisher: Bristol Classical...

This indispensable text can justly be regarded as the forerunner to the great flowering of Dostoevsky's novels which was to follow. This book contains the Russian text of Dostoevsky's Notes from...

Medieval castles were, alongside the great cathedrals, the most recognisable buildings of the medieval world. Closely associated with concepts of justice, lordship and authority as well as military...

Designed for students and teachers of Ancient History or Classical Civilisation at school and in early university years, this series provides a valuable collection of guides to the history, art,...

Euripides and Dionysus is a brilliant and influential study of the god of Greek drama and the one surviving tragedy, Euripides' Bacchae, in which he appears. The play has been intensively discussed...

Euripides: AlcestisAuthor: EuripidesPublisher: Bristol Classical PressPublication Date: Sep 23, 1999Number of Pages: 224 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1853995975ISBN-13: 9781853995972

This introductory Latin textbook contains fifteen brief sections, each of which explains a basic Latin syntactical construction, followed by two passages for comprehension and two for unseen...

In the first collection to be devoted to this subject, a distinguished cast of contributors explores expurgation in both Greek and Latin authors in ancient and modern times. The major focus is on the...

Nineteenth-century French short stories were devoured by their readerswith an insatiable appetite. A reading public that was itself expandingrapidly, as education and leisure opportunities grew,...

Part of the Bristol Classical Press series of Spanish texts, this is Perez Galdos's novel "Tristana". The series is designed to meet the needs of the fast-growing A Level and undergraduate market for...

Die Leiden des jungen Werthers geh?rt zu Goethes bekanntesten Werken.Der Briefroman handelt von der Geschichte einer ungl?cklichen Liebe, die tragisch endet. Als "Die Leiden des jungen Werther" 1774...

Goethe is considered as one of the greatest and most accessible of the romantic poets from Germany. The insights and occasions of his poems are common human ground, and communicated through a...

Gogol's "The Government Inspector" must be one of the most misunderstood and misinterpreted plays in the history of drama. This work shows the wisdom, humour and subtlety that is missing in many...

Originally published in 1835, this is one of two works by Gogol dealing with the "little man" (the other is "The Overcoat"). Of over 150 examples of this genre, these two stories are often considered...

Revizor is the great comic masterpiece of nineteenth- century Russian theatre. Its central role, that of Khlestakov - the opportunistic yarn-spinner who is mistaken by provincial officials for a...

The theatrical genius of Nikolay Gogol has gone largely unappreciated by English-speaking audiences because pedantically literal translations have left his plays virtually unperformable. These fresh...

The aim of this edition is to make the poem approachable to those who are coming at Gongora, or Spanish Golden Age poetry, for the first time, and to help them understand and enjoy it. Fusing epic...

In this volume Robin Barrow traces ancient education from the time of Homeric poems to the age of St. Augustine. Without minimising differences between educational practice of particular periods or...

What happened if you fell sick in the classical world? This book looks at beliefs about the inside of the body and its functioning held in Greek and Roman society. It looks at the precarious position...