Bücher von Paul Allen Miller

The significance of Plato's Apology of Socrates is impossible to overestimate. An account of the famous trial of Socrates in 399BC, it appeals to historians, philosophers, political scientists, classicists, and literary critics. It is also essential reading for students of ancient Greek.

Miller offers a complete course on the Latin erotic elegists, helping to trace the genre's rise and fall, and to understand its relation to the changes that marked the collapse of the Roman republic and the founding of the empire.

Traces the organic development of the lyric form from archaic Greece to Augustan Rome. This text distinguishes between early Greek lyric, a largely oral phenomenon, and the more condensed personal poetry that we now think of as lyric.