Books in the Cambridge Library Collection - Classics series

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.

This is the first of three volumes on Plato published in 1865 as a philosophical supplement to George Grote's authoritative History of Greece. It contains introductory material on Pre-Socratic philosophy and the Platonic canon and a preface to the project, and then focuses on Plato's early works.

Volume 1 of Newman's Politics of Aristotle, first published in 1887, is an introduction to volumes 2-4 which contain Newman's text of the Politics, commentaries and essays. Newman's work is a monument of Victorian scholarship and will continue to be read by scholars and students of Aristotle.

Galen (129-c. 199 CE) is the most famous physician of the Greco-Roman world whose writings have survived. This monumental 22-volume edition of his complete works by Karl Gottlob Kuhn (1754-1840), originally published in Leipzig between 1821 and 1833 and reissued here, has never yet been rivalled.

F. G. Welcker's attempt, first published in two volumes in 1835 and 1849, to recover the lost epics of the archaic period, and the conditions of their performance and transmission. If his adventurous reconstructions do not always command assent, they offer many brilliant observations and insights in the making.

The shorter works of the eminent classical philologist Gottfried Hermann are collected in this eight-volume Opuscula (1827-1877). Exemplifying the range and thoroughness of Hermann's scholarship, Volume 1 (1827) contains essays on Sophocles, Pindar, Greek dialects and poetics, and the Roman fables, as well as occasional verse.

In Psyche, Erwin Rohde (1845-1898) seeks to establish the sources of the Greek belief in the immortality of the soul. Volume 1 examines belief in the soul as it appears in Homeric poetry and within local cults. The author also discusses burial rites and the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Samuel Butler's four-volume edition of the Tragedies of Aeschylus draws upon the monumental 1663 Latin commentary edition by Thomas Stanley. Based upon Stanley's own notes and translations, Butler's Greek and Latin edition distils the early English scholarship on Aeschylus. This second volume (1811) contains Seven Against Thebes and Agamemnon.

Volume 2 of Thomas Arnold's critical edition of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, first published in 1832, contains Books 4-5. Arnold's detailed topographical and historical notes, explaining the geographical and political background to the History, are still an indispensable guide for students and scholars.

A leading classical scholar and philologist, Gottfried Hermann conducted his most important work on Greek grammar and poetry, although he also published critical editions of poems and plays. This two-volume academic study was published in Leipzig in 1852. Volume 2 contains annotations, and essays on aspects of Aeschylus' writing.

Muller's pioneering history of the Dorians was originally published in German in 1824 and translated into English with revisions in 1830. This, the first of two volumes, describes the origins and migrations of the Dorians, their principles of government, and their religion and mythology, including the legends of Hercules.

John Conington's three-volume Works of Virgil (1858-1871) remains one of the most lucid and authoritative commentaries on the Virgilian corpus. Available again after decades out of print, this volume (1864) features the first six books of the Aeneid, fully explicated and contextualised in Conington's detailed and informative notes.

This two-volume study, first published in 1876, aimed to re-establish the centrality of pre-Demosthenes orators to the history of Greek literature, and to situate their work in its political and social contexts. Volume 1 focuses on the lives and works of the orators Antiphon, Andokides and Lysias.

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.

John Conington's three-volume Works of Virgil (1858-1871) remains one of the most lucid and authoritative commentaries on the Virgilian corpus. Available again after decades out of print, this third volume features the final six books of the Aeneid, fully explicated and contextualised by Conington and Nettleship's informative notes.

Volume 2 of William Newman's Politics of Aristotle (1887) contains Newman's reconstructed text of books 1-2, critical notes, commentary, and an introduction to the manuscript sources. Newman's work is a monument of Victorian scholarship and will continue to be read by scholars and students of Aristotle.

The German historian Eduard Meyer's two-volume work on ancient Greek history was first published in 1892-1899 and describes specific periods up to the fifth century BCE. Volume 1 (1892) focuses on the Pelasgian people, the Ionians and Herodotus, as well as on Lykurgos, the King of Sparta.

Volume 3 of Politics of Aristotle (1902) contains Newman's reconstructed text of books 3-5 of the Politics with critical notes, commentary, and an introduction to the manuscript sources. Newman's work is a monument of Victorian scholarship and will continue to be read by scholars and students of Aristotle.

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.