Bristol Classical Press

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,...

Empedocles: Extant FragmentsAuthor: EmpedoclesPublisher: Bristol Classical PressPublication Date: Jan 01, 1998Number of Pages: 372 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1853994820ISBN-13:...

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 school edition of passages from two plays of Euripides, originally published by Macmillan, is furnished with introduction, notes, vocabulary and useful summaries of the lines and choruses...

With its savage indictment of the horrors of war as they affect womenand children on the losing side, Euripides Troades has been one of themost regularly read, performed and adapted of Greek...

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...

This volume has served several generations of Latinists making theirfirst acquaintance with the main Roman prose authors of the firstacquaintance with the main Roman prose authors of the first...

This selection for school use of six hundred lines from the works of Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Tibullus and Ovid is accompanied by an introduction which includes short biographies of each of the...

These translations of Oedipus the King, Antigone, Acharnians and Peace are here reissued in paperback. They are written to be accessible for use in schools and for performance, and contain no Greek...

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...

Gorky: Lower DepthsAuthor: Maxim GorkyPublisher: Bristol Classical PressPublication Date: Jan 01, 1998Number of Pages: 144 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1853993506ISBN-13: 9781853993503

Gotthelf: Die Schwarze SpinneAuthor: Jeremias GotthelfPublisher: Bristol Classical PressPublication Date: Jan 01, 1998Number of Pages: 124 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

This account traces each stage of the critical struggle between the Persian Empire and the early Greek states, from the first clashes to the miraculous return home of 10,000 Greek mercenaries...

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...

A clearly structured discussion of all the major buildings constructed by the Greeks, from houses to temples, theatres to council buildings. The book describes particular architectural styles and...

A useful resource for the student of Ancient Greek, this book includes an interesting selection of passages in Greek by a variety of authors from Xenophon and Euripides to Plato.Author: Martin...

In the wake of Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey", poets of the seventh and sixth centuries BC composed epics which covered other parts of the Trojan War story or different areas of Greek mythology...

Goodwin's Greek Grammar, first published in 1879 and later revised and enlarged, has maintained its position as the most comprehensive grammar available to the serious student of ancient language on...

In this book Jason Konig offers for the first time an accessible yet comprehensive account of the multi-faceted Greek literature of the Roman Empire, focusing especially on the first three centuries...