Books in the BCP Classic Commentaries on Greek and Latin Texts series

Cicero's poetry has often been adversely criticised. This book presents a collection of all of the surviving lines of Cicero's works. The poems are closely analyzed and a full introduction and commentary on the text is provided.

Medicine, zoology, botany and minerology are the themes of Nicander's two extant poems of the Hellenistic period. Fragments of other poems also survive, and these had an influence on later poets, notably Virgil and Ovid. This translated edition was first published in 1953 and is fully annotated.

This classic edition, reissued here, was based on lectures delivered by John Connington during his tenure of the chair of Latin at Oxford in the middle years of the 19th century. Edited after his death, the book has been accepted as the definitive work on Persius.

This edition of Herodotus' "Histories: Book 1" contains an introduction, text and annotation on matters of language and content. There is also an explanatory index of historical and geographical names.