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Terence: AndriaCambridge Greek and Latin Classics As the first play of the Terentian corpus, Andria has always attracted a special level of attention. It was the first Roman comedy produced after antiquity (at Florence in 1476) and the first translated into English, and it has inspired writers from Jonson and Dryden to Thornton Wilder. It provides an excellent introduction to Terence 's particular style of comedy, noteworthy for its ambivalence in representing the

the works of Euripides (484-406 BC) were revolutionary in their depiction of tragic events caused by flawed humanity

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setting the poems in their cultural context and drawing on the scholarship of leading academics to explore the poetry

was probably composed in the first century AD

brief commentaries that connect ancient medical practices to modern ones

the book also includes an introduction

while Seven Against Thebes shows the inexorable downfall of the last members of the cursed family of Oedipus

Usher has gathered a healthy litter of selections that reveal some of the ways Greeks and Romans thought about everything from lions

Never has ancient misogyny been presented with so much wit and style' - historian Amanda Foreman

published in three parts

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when uncivil discourse has increasingly infected public debate