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Rhesus takes place during the Trojan War, on the night when Odysseus and Diomedes sneak into the Trojan camp and kill Rhesus, instead of Hector, by orders of Athena....

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The Phoenician Women is a tragedy by Euripides. The title refers to the Greek chorus, which is composed of Phoenician women on their way to Delphi who are trapped in Thebes by the war. The chorus represents the innocent and neutral people that very often are found in the middle of war situations. Patriotism is a significant theme in the story, as Polynices talks a great deal about his love for the city of Thebes but has brought an army to destroy it; Creon is also forced to make a choice between saving the city and saving the life of his son. Euripides wrote the play around 408 BC, under the influence of a big defeat of his homeland, Athens, which then faced a military disaster....

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First produced in 472 BC, it is the oldest surviving play in the history of theatre. It dramatises the Persian response to news of their military defeat at the Battle of Salamis (480 BC), which was a decisive episode in the Greco–Persian Wars; as such, the play is also notable for being the only extant Greek tragedy that is based on contemporary events....

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Reconstructed from the source text.

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‘Glittering-Minded deathless Aphrodite’ ‘Be here, by me’ ‘Come to me here from Crete’ ‘The stars around the beautiful moon’ ‘He is dying, Cytherea, your tender Adonis,’ ‘Some say horsemen, some say warriors’ ‘Stand up and look at me, face to face’ ‘Love shook my heart’ ‘He’s equal with the Gods, that man’ ‘But you, O Dika, wreathe lovely garlands in your hair,’ Fragments, on Love and Desire Fragments, on the Muses ‘I have a daughter, golden’ ‘Hesperus, you bring back again’ ‘Girls, you be ardent for the fragrant-blossomed’ ‘The Moon is down’...

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The priestess of Artemis.

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The murder of the King.

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The Assault on Boeotian Thebes.

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Occasional poems from the age of Domitian.

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Book I To Stella Book II To Melior Book III To Pollius Book IV To Marcellus Book V To Abascantus

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The Twelve Caesars in a new prose translation

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Book I Julius Caesar Book II Augustus Book III Tiberius Book IV Gaius Caligula Book V Claudius Book VI Nero Book VII Galba, Otho, Vitellius Book VIII Vespasian, Titus, Domitian...

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A selection of poetry by Sappho.

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This tragedy is based on the mythological story of King Pentheus of Thebes and his mother Agauë, and their punishment by the god Dionysus (who is Pentheus' cousin) for refusing to worship him....

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Medea is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BC. The plot centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman....

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A complete English translation with in-depth name index.

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‘No joy in corrupting Venus to a blind motion: know, if you do not, the eyes are the guides of Love.’ Book II.15:11-12

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A selection of poetry by Anacreon and others.

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-Anacreon Odd Sandals Prayer to Dionysius Water and Wine -Anonymous Thinking Mate -Asclepiades Tryphera -Bacchylides Happiness Ode to Hekate The Test of Virtue -Hedylus Let Us Drink -Ibycus No Rest for Love -Ion of Chios Untamable Child -Melanippides Wine after Water -Poseidippus Archianax -Praxilla Beware To Adonis You Look Great -Sappho Ode to Aphrodite Abandoned And as for Me But I Sleep Alone It Seems to Me Mountain wind To Her Lyre On Eros The Stars around The Moon Sweet Apple -Stesichorus Quinces and chariots -Timotheus Ambrosia Old Songs...

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Tells the story of the death of Heracles by his wife.

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Another buzz from the master.

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Rebellion against the Gods.

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The wanderings of Odysseus.

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Book I Athene visits Telemachus Book II Debate in Ithaca Book III Telemachus in Pylos Book IV Telemachus in Lacedaemon Book V Odysseus and Calypso Book VI Odysseus and Nausicaa Book VII Odysseus meets Alcinous Book VIII The Games in Phaeacia Book IX Polyphemus the Cyclops Book X Odysseus and Circe Book XI Odysseus in the Underworld Book XII Scylla and Charybdis Book XIII Odysseus in Ithaca Book XIV Odysseus and Eumaeus Book XV Telemachus Returns Book XVI Odysseus and Telemachus Book XVII Odysseus in the palace Book XVIII Irus the beggar Book XIX Odysseus and Eurycleia Book XX Preparations for revenge Book XXI The archery contest Book XXII The fight in the palace Book XXIII Odysseus and Penelope Book XXIV Athene makes peace...

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The killing fields of Troy.

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Book I The Quarrel Book II The Catalogue of Ships Book III The Duel Book IV The Truce Broken Book V Diomedes Fights the Gods Book VI Hector and Andromache Book VII Ajax against Hector Book VIII The Trojans at the Wall Book IX Achilles is Unmoved Book X The Night Raid Book XI The Achaeans Routed Book XII Hector storms the Wall Book XIII The Fight at the Ships Book XIV Hera tricks Zeus Book XV The Greeks at Bay Book XVI The Death of Patroclus Book XVII The Fight for Patroclus’ Body Book XVIII New Armour for Achilles Book XIX The Quarrel is Ended Book XX Achilles Leads the Army Book XXI The Fight at the River Book XXII The Death of Hector Book XXIII The Funeral Games for Patroclus Book XXIV Achilles and Priam...

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The master returns!

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In Sappho’s Journal, the author brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a lyrical account of the life, passion, fears, and faith of this remarkable woman whose intimate journal takes us back to 642 B.C. The book includes a Foreword by the well-known Sappho scholar and translator Willis Barnstone....

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FOREWORD by Willis Barnstone xi PREFACE by Steven James Bartlett xiii SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 1 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 151 COLOPHON 153

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The first play of his bawdy, irreverent trilogy, opposing the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, in a new, explicit, modern translation.

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Produced during the Peloponnesian War, it is often considered a commentary on the capture of the Aegean island of Melos and the subsequent slaughter and subjugation of its populace by the Athenians earlier in 415 BC, the same year the play was produced....

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Philoctetes is a play by Sophocles. The play was written during the Peloponnesian War. It was first performed at the Festival of Dionysus in 409 BC, where it won first prize. The story takes place during the Trojan War (after the majority of the events of the Iliad, and before the Trojan Horse). It describes the attempt by Neoptolemus and Odysseus to bring the disabled Philoctetes with them to Troy....

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While Herakles is in the underworld obtaining Cerberus for one of his labours, his father Amphitryon, wife Megara, and children are sentenced to death in Thebes by Lycus. Herakles arrives in time to save them, though the goddesses Iris and Madness (personified) cause him to kill his wife and children in a frenzy....

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Andromache dramatizes Andromache's life as a slave, years after the events of the Trojan War, and her conflict with her master's new wife, Hermione.

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The poetic treatise on farming in four books.

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Book I : Agriculture Book II : Arboriculture and Viniculture Book III : Livestock Farming Book IV : Bee-Keeping (Apiculture)

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Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan war, it is based around the character of Electra, and the vengeance that she and her brother Orestes take on their mother Clytemnestra and step father Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon....

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Hēkabē is a tragedy by Euripides written c. 424 BC. It takes place after the Trojan War, but before the Greeks have departed Troy. The central figure is Hēkabē, wife of King Priam, formerly Queen of the now-fallen city. It depicts Hēkabē's grief over the death of her daughter Polyxena, and the revenge she takes for the murder of her youngest son Polydorus....

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Hippolytos Stephanophoros "Hippolytus who wears a crown", is a reference to the crown of garlands Hippolytus wears as a worshiper of Artemis. In this version of Hippolytus, his stepmother Phaedra fights her sexual appetites for her stepson, only to hang herself and blame Hippolytus. The surviving play offers a much more even-handed and psychologically complex treatment of the characters than is commonly found in traditional retelling of myths....

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The famous final part of the anti-war trilogy from the master of Athenian 'Old Attic' Comedy, with stage directions, and an introduction for theatre directors....

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Heracleidae is a play by Euripides c. 430 BC. It follows the children of Heracles (known as the Heracleidae), as they seek protection from Eurystheus. It is the first of two surviving plays by Euripides where the family of Heracles are suppliants (the second being Heracles Mad)....

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The epic poem of Aeneas of Troy, and the origins of Rome.

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Book I The Trojans Reach Carthage Book II The Fall of Troy Book III The Trojans Sail for Italy Book IV The Tragedy of Dido Book V The Funeral Games Book VI The Visit to the Underworld Book VII War in Latium Book VIII The Site of Rome Book IX The Siege Book X The Relief and Battle Book XI Councils of War Book XII The Death of Turnus...

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It chronicles the fate of the warrior Ajax after the events of the Iliad, but before the end of the Trojan War.

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The aftermath of the War of the Seven Against Thebes.

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A prelude to the Trojan War.

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A further instalment of his satirical trilogy opposing the Peloponnesian War.

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His comic masterpiece written beneath the shadow of defeat during the Peloponnesian War.

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More fun from the home of political incorrectness.