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An indispensable tool for teaching and reading Herodotus' first book in Greek. The Commentary provides considerable help with matters of language. It also explores Herodotus' literary strategies, his value as a historian and the attention he devotes to the customs, beliefs, concrete realities, and myths of other cultures.

An indispensable tool for teaching and reading Herodotus' first book in Greek. The Commentary provides considerable help with matters of language. It also explores Herodotus' literary strategies, his value as a historian and the attention he devotes to the customs, beliefs, concrete realities, and myths of other cultures.

"Offers intermediate Greek students a reliable, up-to-date introduction to Plato's most influential work. Plato's Greek is not difficult, but his ideas have generated considerable controversy. Book I serves as a dramatic introduction to them, with its memorable confrontation between Socrates and the sophist Thrasymachus over the nature of justice"--