Books in the Cambridge Library Collection - Classics series

This pioneering work by Droysen (1808-84), published in two volumes in 1836 and 1843, was one of the first historical studies of the century after Alexander the Great. Droysen, who coined the term 'Hellenism', was noted for his careful attention to sources. Volume 1 covers 323-278 BCE.

In this new, two-volume edition of Pompeiana published in 1832, British archaeologist Sir William Gell presents and preserves the most recent findings of the excavations at Pompeii in text and illustration. The first volume focuses on sites such as the city baths, the forum, and the 'temple of Fortune'.

Boeckh's classic work from 1817 (reissued here in the 1886 edition) is still regarded as one of the most thorough treatments of the economic structures of Athenian society, making exhaustive use of the epigraphical and literary sources available, and covering a wide range of topics in volume 1.

Sir Richard Jebb's seven-volume edition of the works of Sophocles, published between 1883 and 1896, remains a landmark in Greek scholarship. The text itself is given with an introduction, a parallel English translation, collation and explanatory notes. This volume contains Philoctetes.

This two-volume critical edition of Seneca's tragedies by Friedrich Leo (1851-1914) was published in Berlin in 1878-1879. A classical scholar of some distinction, Leo was best known for his work on Roman poetry. Volume 2 contains the known Senecan tragedies and Octavia, whose authorship is uncertain.

Volume 2 of Frederick Apthorp Paley's English commentary on Euripides, first published in 1858, contains the Greek text of the plays Ion, Helena, Andromache, Electra, Bacchae, and Hecuba, each with a detailed introductory essay and a line-by-line commentary. This influential work remains a key text in Euripidean scholarship.

A. E. Housman's immensely erudite edition of Manilius' five-volume Latin poem on the influence of the stars and the zodiac on human affairs was published between 1903 and 1930, and remains the authoritative text. Volume 4 describes the influence of the zodiacal signs on the people born under them.

Sir James Frazer published this five-volume edition of Ovid's poem on the Roman calendar in 1929. It contains the text and a parallel English translation, with commentary on the six books, indexes, illustrations and plans. Volume 1 consists of the text and translation of all six books.

The most famous legal work of the ancient world was issued in the period 529-34 at the order of the emperor Justinian. This three-volume edition in Latin by Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903) and his colleagues was first published in 1872-95. Volume 3 contains the Novellae.

The most famous legal work of the ancient world was issued in the period 529-34 at the order of the emperor Justinian. This three-volume edition in Latin by Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903) and his colleagues, was first published in 1872-95. Volume 1 contains the Institutiones and Digesta.

Following a medical career, James Henry (1798-1876) focused on the study of Virgil's Aeneid, visiting libraries across Europe. Prepared for press by others after his death, this monumental multi-volume commentary, published between 1873 and 1892, remains a landmark in Virgilian scholarship. Volume 5 (1892) comprises the indexes.

This greatly revised and enlarged twelve-volume third edition (1911-15) of the controversial work by Sir James Frazer (1854-1941) applies the techniques of comparative ethnography to classical religion. Volume 1 (1911) explores the belief that kings could harness Nature.

This six-volume translation of and commentary on the works of Pausanias, the second-century CE traveller and antiquarian, was published in 1898 by Sir James Frazer (1854-1941), best remembered today for his study of religion, The Golden Bough. Volume 6 contains indices and maps of each of the districts discussed.

This six-volume translation of and commentary on the works of Pausanias, the second-century CE traveller and antiquarian, was published in 1898 by Sir James Frazer (1854-1941), best remembered today for his study of religion, The Golden Bough. Volume 1 contains a preface, Frazer's translation, and notes on the text.

Published in 1811, this is the first volume of a classic edition of the surviving works of Pindar (c.522-c.443 BCE). German classicist August Boeckh (1785-1867) provides the Greek texts of the Epinician Odes, plus a groundbreaking treatise (in Latin) on Pindarian metrics, a preface and scholarly notes.

Servius Grammaticus is believed to have been active in the later part of the fourth century CE. This influential three-volume Latin edition (in four parts) of his commentary on Vergil was published in Germany between 1878 and 1902. Volume 3 Part 1 contains the commentary on the Eclogues and Georgics.

Mommsen's influential study (1871-1888) is a systematic treatment of the workings of the Roman state. The renowned German scholar proposed an original and sometimes controversial understanding of Roman institutions, based around the categories of nineteenth-century constitutional law. This volume focuses on the Principate and the imperial household.

Volume 3 of Cook's monumental Zeus explores the idea of Zeus as god of earthquakes, clouds, wind, dew, rain and meteorites. Part 2 contains three appendixes and an index for the volume. It is a rich source of primary texts and archaeological data, indispensable to the student of ancient religion.

Volume 1 (1912) of Usener's posthumously published essays focuses on Greek philosophy and rhetoric, addressing such diverse topics as Theophrastus' legal writings and Epicurean sayings. It also includes contributions on Greek grammar and textual criticism, as well as reviews by Usener of works published by some of his contemporaries.

Stallbaum published his edition Eustathius of Thessalonica's Greek commentary on Homer's Odyssey between 1825 and 1826. Volume 1 contains books 1-11 of the commentary. The work, a compilation of texts by earlier authors, preserves many otherwise lost extracts from writers such as Aristarchus of Samothrace, Zenodotus and Aristophanes of Byzantium.

In this four-volume set, first published in 1871, the leading Greek scholar and academic Benjamin Jowett translates into English the dialogues of one of the world's greatest philosophers. Volume 2 contains Timaeus, Critias and the Republic, together with Jowett's editorial introductions.

Volume 4 of William Newman's Politics of Aristotle, first published in 1902, contains his reconstructed Greek text of books 4-8 of the Politics with notes and a detailed commentary. Newman's work is a monument of Victorian scholarship and will continue to be read by scholars and students of Aristotle.

Munro's two-volume edition of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, published in Cambridge in 1864, was an important contribution to nineteenth-century classical scholarship. Volume 1 contains all six books of Lucretius' poem on Epicurean cosmology in Latin with an English translation.

The first volume of Joseph B. Mayor's 1880s edition of Cicero's De Natura Deorum contains a full introduction and commentary to this complex theological dialogue, staged between the Epicurean and Academic schools. Cicero's Book 1 presents arguments concerning the nature of divine creation and human perception of the gods.

Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848-1931) was a prominent German philologist. In Volume 1 of this 1893 book on The Constitution of the Athenians, he investigates the sources employed by Aristotle (to whom he ascribes the work); among these were Herodotus, Thucydides, and possibly two now lost contemporary chronicles.

This original edition of Niebuhr's History of Rome (1811-1812) is a valuable source of information on classical scholarship during a period of rapid growth. Niebuhr's work was influential both on later developments in ancient history and on the understanding of history as an academic discipline.

Sir Richard Jebb's seven-volume edition of the works of Sophocles, published between 1883 and 1896, remains a landmark in Greek scholarship. The text itself is given with an introduction, a parallel English translation, collation and explanatory notes. This volume contains Oedipus Tyrannus.

This two-volume critical edition of Seneca's tragedies by Friedrich Leo (1851-1914) was published in Berlin in 1878-1879. A classical scholar of some distinction, Leo was best known for his work on Roman poetry. Volume 1 contains his critical observations and textual analysis.

Henry John Roby's two-volume descriptive Grammar of the Latin Language, first published in the 1870s, offers thorough linguistic analysis based on the works of classical writers from the early Latin period to the Silver Age. This first volume focuses on phonetics, noun and verb inflexions, and word formation.

Volume 1 of Paley's English commentary on Euripides, first published in 1857, contains the Greek text of the plays Rhesus, Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, Heraclidae, Supplices and Troades, each with a detailed introductory essay and a line-by-line commentary. This influential work remains a key text in Euripidean scholarship.