Introduction. The introductory sections to previous translations on this blog of the "Odyssey", Book V (17th September 2010), ...

Introduction. Xenophon (c.428-354 B.C.) was a historian and a miscellaneous writer, a military leader and a disciple of Socrates, of who...

Introduction. The following two extracts are translations from two of the letters of the Younger Pliny and were written in praise of his...

Introduction. Tacitus' "Annals of Imperial Rome" in sixteen books covered the years 14-69 A.D. For information about Tacit...

Introduction. 'Ecclesiazusae', produced probably in 392 B.C. is one of the last plays Aristophanes wrote. In style and content i...

Introduction - Plato. Plato (427-347 B.C.) was the greatest of the Greek philosophers, and also one of the greatest Attic prose-writers....

Introduction. The theme of these four extracts, translated by Sabidius, is that of 'Unwelcome people'. The first two are trickst...