The two-volume edition provides the first comprehensive scholarly commentary on seven central orations from the corpus of Cicero’sPhilippics. These orations against Mark Antony are an important testim
This work offers an updated commentary of Triphiodorus Sack of Troy, furnished with a thorough introduction. The reliable and long-lasting companion fills a gap in the scholarship on Imperial epic, gi
Panayotakis (U. of Crete) seeks to provide a comprehensive account of the different traditions that are active in the many versions of the tale, by means of a detailed discussion of the language and t
The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (600s BCE?) tells the story of a brief encounter between the goddess of love and the cowherd Anchises, which led to the birth of the Trojan hero Aeneas. Less than 300 lin
The Homeric Questions of the philosopher Porphyry (3rd cent. CE) is an important work in the history of Homeric criticism. Porphyry applies the dictum that “the poet explains himself” to solve questio
