The Symposium is a complex piece which is perhaps as widely read as any of Plato's works apart from the Republic. However the existing standard commentaries in English do not offer much by way of help
The dating of the Phaedrus has been hotly debated: sometimes it has been counted among Plato's earliest works; sometimes with the dialogues of the 'middle' period (Phaedo, Symposium, Republic); someti
This selection is aimed at those coming to Hesiod's works for the first time. It includes the Greek text of Theogony 1-232, 453-733 and Works and Days 1-307, along withintroduction and commentary.
The underlying interdisciplinary focus of this volume is on streets as historically the basic functional and social unit of the urban environment. Ten contributions rest on a tripod of main themes inf
This Festschrift is offered to Richard Hays in celebration of his sixtieth birthday as a token of gratitude from colleagues and friends whose scholarly imaginations have been sparked in numerous ways