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Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia (Oxford, 1981); M. H. Hansen, The Athenian Ecclesia: a collection of articles, ...

to illustrate the nature of myth and of suffering in tragedy. A.D. Trendall and T. B.L. Webster, Illustrations of Greek Drama (L ...

Impressive versions of tragedies by Louis MacNeice and Rex Warner can still be found in second hand bookshops. Greek Historians ...

The development of local history is discussed by Momigliano, Studies, ch. 1; for the local Athenian historians there is the mast ...

Athenian law. Athenian social values are described in K.J. Dover, Greek Popular Morality in the time of Plato and Aristotle (Oxf ...

Movement (Cambridge, 1981) is less massive. The Greek texts and translations are printed, with a helpful commentary, in G. S. Ki ...

Fortunately the whole subject has recently been treated in a masterpiece of lively learning, W. Burkert, Greek Religion, trans. ...

A.J. Festugiere, Personal Religion among the Greeks (Berkeley, 1954). W.K. C. Guthrie, Orpheus and Greek Religion (London, 1935) ...

the Greeks built Cities (London, 1962) and A. W. Lawrence, Greek Aims in Fortification (Oxford, 1979). Vase-painting. R. M. Cook ...

San Francisco, 1978), which includes Ai Khanoum, and J.M. Rosen-field, The Dynastic Arts of the Kushans (Berkeley, 1967). For th ...

Anthology, ed. Peter Jay (London, 1973); Herodas was translated by his editor, W. Headlam (Cambridge, 1922); Apollonius is trans ...

For an analysis of recent work in the area, see M.H. Crawford, 'Rome and Italy', in Journal of Roman Studies 71 (1981), 153-60. ...

Roman Studies, 1981. There is a good general account in C. Nicolet, Rome et la conquete du monde mediterraneen, ii: Genese d'un ...

Barsby's edition of Bacchides (Warminster, 1986) includes a very successful verse translation and full commentary based on it, a ...

Plutarch's Lives of Sulla, Crassus, Pompey, Caesar, and Cicero feature in the Penguin Plutarch: Fall of the Roman Republic. They ...

Finally, it may be useful to list a few books that help to put the political life of the late Republic in a broader social conte ...

Hellenistic And Graeco-Roman Art (By Roger Ling) There is a shortage of good books in English dealing specifically with the ar ...

Loeb Classical Library. Augustus' own Res Gestae Divi Augusti can be consulted in the excellent edition, with translation and co ...

The Arts Of Government (By Nicholas Purcell) Fundamental is F. Millar, The Emperor in the Roman World (London, 1977), not only ...

Greek World (London, 1981), who (p. 503) likens the behaviour of the rulers of the Empire to that of vampire bats. Augustan Poe ...