Prior to publication of this 1996 book, much had been written on Plato as a critic of literature, but no commentaries had appeared in English on the Ion, or the opening books of the Republic in which Plato launches his famous attack on ...

"This updated edition incorporates twenty-eight new lines in the first Hymn to Dionysos, along with expanded notes, a new preface, and an enhanced bibliography.

This volume ranges in time over a very long period and covers the Greeks' most original contributions to intellectual history. It begins and ends with philosophy, but it also includes major sections on historiography and oratory.

This eBook version of Spoon River Anthology presents the full text of this literary classic.

There were many friendship anthologies in late 19th-century America and Europe, but Carpenter's was thorough and explicit.--Jim Kepner.

This eBook version of Metamorphoses presents the full text of this literary classic.