The Roman poet Statius' 4th book of Silvae , published in AD 95, follows its preface with nine poems celebrating occasions from the building of a road to the gift-giving Saturnalian festival. This commentary includes Latin text and facing English translation.

Book XXI of Livy's history of Rome is one of the most frequently read either in its entirety or in extracts

An account of Egyptian history and custom which includes anthropology, natural history and any antiquarian information of interest to Herodotus. This scholarly edition offers a thorough introduction to both Greek historiography and Egyptology.

Uncle Vanya has been described as the least pleasant and most bitter of Chekhov's plays - yet the difficulty in communication is one of its outstanding features.

The first full-scale commentary on the neglected second book of Lucan's epic poem De bello civili.

This controversial eighteenth-century work was banned for many years because of its depiction of the cloistered fate forced upon many women. It has now been put under a modern theorist's microscope with the full critical apparatus that university students need.

The Overcoat , first published in 1842, is Gogol's most famous short story. This study combines a detailed survey of the critical reception and reworkings in a range of media with a synthetic analysis, drawing together the insight of a century and a half of attention to Gogol's masterpiece.

De Rerum Natura offers readers a complete guide to happiness and a total tour of the universe. This book draws on the latest research into the text and interpretation of Lucretius to elucidate both the poetic artistry and philosophical content. Little background knowledge of Latin is assumed.

This book aims to help ou to explore the countless words which have come to our own language from Latin.

Graded according to difficulty, this work offers stories that offer an insight into Spanish America. They range over the extent of its geography, from Mexico and the Caribbean to the Southern Cone, and probe its varied and complex societies. Each text comes with English notes and vocabulary, and an introduction.

This text seeks to reassess Plato's views on how we might investigate and explain the natural world.