Books in the Classic Commentaries series

These are the extant fragments from the works of Empedocles, the Greek philosopher (c.430 B.C.) who assumed four different elements - air, water, fire and earth, and two powers - love and hate. This text is part of the Classic Latin and Greek texts series.

R.C. Jebb's editions of Sophocles' plays appeared in the last years of the 19th century. They are distinguished by the author's sensitive, literary and dramatic interpretations and his neat translations that face the Greek text.

A historical-archaeological and linguistic commentary of Tacitus's "Germania". Updated to include the findings of archaeological investigation over the century, it serves to lift the veil that shrouded the pre-history of the Germanic peoples and the process of their expansion over central Europe.