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Greek Epitaphic Poetry: A SelectionCambridge Greek and Latin Classics Thousands of Greek verse epitaphs, covering a millennium of history, survive inscribed or painted on stone. These largely anonymous poems shed rich light on areas such as ancient moral values, religious ideas, gender relations and attitudes, as well as on the transmission and reception of 'canonical' poetry; many of these poems are of very high literary quality. This is the first modern commentary on a selection of

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and using all his wiles in an attempt to win him for philosophy

this two-part course is based on experience of what pupils find difficult

Practice Passages for Latin Verse Translation and Comprehension

alongside a select vocabulary and a useful appendix on metres

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Cicero casts Caelius as the decent young man victimized by the aggressive courtesan

Alexander the Great

Book XXII recounts the climax of the Iliad: the fatal encounter between the main defender of Troy and the greatest warrior of the Greeks

and an inspiration to countless writers

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