Classical Texts

''The Argonauts were terrified at the sight. But Jason planting his feet apart stood to receive them, as a reef in the sea confronts the tossing bi...

Tom Holland's 'stirring new translation' (Telegraph) of Herodotus' Histories, one of the great books in Western history - now in paperbackThe Histo...

First published in Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's Sophocles: Four Tragedies , this riveting translation by Peter Meineck of Sophocles' Philoctet...

We often talk loosely of the tyranny of the majority as a threat to the workings of democracy. But, in ancient Greece, the analogy of demos and t...

The earthly King Pururavas rescues the celestial nymph Urvashi from a demon, and thus begins a majestic love story that brings heaven and earth tog...

We often talk loosely of the tyranny of the majority as a threat to the workings of democracy. But, in ancient Greece, the analogy of demos and tyr...

Colin Austin, Professor of Greek at Cambridge University 19982008, was one of the worlds foremost experts in the reconstruction and interpretation ...

Betrayed by a husband she sacrificed everything for, Medea unleashes a horrific vengeance on her enemies, by murdering her own children. Featuring...

Who would have thought that a drinks party could lead to this. - a cure for hiccups, wine by the yard, hilarity - and the ohilosophy of how to liv...

With forty pounds he went back to England. Curlews cried in the bog next to Ballinasloe station. A taxi-man looked harassed no work maybe. They ki...

The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected father-in-law ...

Robert Fagles's award-winning translations of Homer's twin works The Iliad and The Odyssey have sold more than a million copies and become classics...

The most famous and influential work of English fantasy ever published, reimagined for a new generation of readers by John Matthews, o...