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This 1822 edition of the Patriarch Photius' ninth-century Greek lexicon was published by Peter Paul Dobree. It is based on a transcription by Richard Porson of the only remaining manuscript of the lexicon: Codex Galeanus, in Trinity College, Cambridge. Volume 1 contains entries for the letters alpha to omicron.

Volume 4 of William Newman's Politics of Aristotle, first published in 1902, contains his reconstructed Greek text of books 4-8 of the Politics with notes and a detailed commentary. Newman's work is a monument of Victorian scholarship and will continue to be read by scholars and students of Aristotle.

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.

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 Electra.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.