The Loeb Classical Library: Select Papyri, Volume III : Poetry

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The Loeb Classical Library: Select Papyri, Volume III : PoetryThe papyri found in Egypt have yielded fragments large and small of ancient literary authors. We include in this volume from the 5th4th centuries BC fragments of two tragedies (one a satyr play) by Aeschylus; of five by Sophocles; of ten by Euripides; of one by Ion; and of some plays not assignable. From Old Comedy, 5th century, we have fragments of one play each of Epicharmus, Cratinus, Pherecrates, Eupolis, and Plato; some fragments of Aristophanes;

The facing translation stays as close to the Greek wording as English idiom allows

How to Care about Animals is a fascinating menagerie of passages from classical literature about animals and the lives we share with them

ενώ τρελαίνεται για ό

materialism

Αγνοεί ακόμα και την προειδοποίηση της αδελφής της ότι με τη συμπεριφορά της δίνει λαβή να τη σχολιάζουν

acute social commentary

Students and scholars alike will welcome this commentary

Starting from the conviction that Latin literature gains from being viewed as performance

in its breadth and density

The only thing they have in common is that the initials of their names are consecutive letters

Στον Εμφύλιο που ακολουθεί μετά την Απελευθέρωση

and bibliography