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Ovid's personal love eloquies are arguably his most attractive work. Dr Booth offers a Latin text with parallel prose translation, and on each poem there is a critical essay written for the

"Ecclesiazusae", probably produced in 391BC, is at once a typically Aristophanic fantasy of gender inversion, obscenity and farce, a surviving work in the western Utopian tradition, and the source of a blueprint

A military history of the two Persian invasions of Greece - the first of which came to grief at Marathon, the second at Salamis and Plataia. The conflicts are looked at in