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Published in 1887, at a time when the value of some Greek letters was not universally agreed, and when excavation was regularly providing new materials for study, this innovative and important book, which set standards of classification and interpretation, was widely welcomed as a tool for research.

The second volume of E. S. Robert's work, written with E. A. Gardner and published in 1905, focuses on the inscriptions found in Attica, and especially Athens. Each is given in transcription, with suggested restorations and the reproduction of unusual characters where the value is not certain, and with full explanatory notes.

Joseph B. Mayor's edition of Cicero's De Natura Deorum (1880-1885) presents Cicero's fascinating theological dialogue with a full introduction and complete commentary. Set against the backdrop of the competing Roman schools of philosophy, Cicero's ambitious work explores the nature of both divine creation and human philosophical enquiry.

This is the first volume (first published in 1784) of William Mitford's History of Greece, covering the period from the nation's legendary foundations, including the Trojan War and the first Olympiad, to the end of the first Peloponnesian War in 445 BCE.

Illustrating how our knowledge of Latin has advanced over time, Lindsay's enduring 1894 work draws on earlier studies of Latin philology and phonology. The book addresses the complex history of Latin grammar, covering areas including the language's formation of the various parts of speech, its declensions and its pronunciation changes.

Published in two volumes in 1845 and 1850, Fasti Romani, Henry Fynes Clinton's chronological history of the Roman Empire, made an important contribution to the study of the ancient world. Clinton's strict methodological reading of the sources established high standards for historical research in classical studies.

German classical philologist Ribbeck's second edition of Virgil's works was published in Leipzig, 1894-1895. Solely a critical edition, it lacks textual commentary. It comprises four parts in two volumes: Volume 1 contains the Eclogues and Georgics, and Aeneid, Books 1-6.

German classical philologist Ribbeck's second edition of Virgil's works was published in Leipzig, 1894-1895. Solely a critical edition, it lacks textual commentary. It comprises four parts in two volumes: Volume 2 contains the Aeneid, Books 7-12 and Appendix Vergiliana, giving texts of other poems assigned to the Virgilian canon.

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 third volume (1812) contains the Choephori and Eumenides.

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 first volume (1809) contains Prometheus Bound and The Suppliants.

Samuel Butler's four-volume edition of Aeschylus' Tragedies draws upon the monumental 1663 Latin commentary of Thomas Stanley. Based upon Stanley's notes and translations, Butler's Greek and Latin edition distils the early English scholarship on Aeschylus. This second part of the fourth volume contains attributed fragments and an index.

Die Geburt der Tragoedie (1872) is one of the most important philosophical texts of the modern period. Nietzsche traces the origins of Greek tragedy in the encounter between the Dionysian and the Apollonian, and suggests that the music of Richard Wagner has a power to overcome this dichotomy.

First published between 1839 and 1851, this is still widely considered to be the definitive collection of ancient Greek proverbs and ranks among the outstanding works of nineteenth-century classical scholarship. Volume 1 contains texts by Zenobius, Diogenianus, Plutarchus, and Gregorius Cyprius, with critical apparatus and Latin commentary.

Muller's translation of and commentary on Aeschylus' play The Eumenides was published in 1833. The play is a reenactment of the Greek legend of the trial of Agamemnon's son Orestes. The role of the chorus and the significance of the costumes are explored, and the composition of the play explored.

Karl Muller (1813-1894) published this monumental and still unrivalled collection of the surviving fragments of Greek historical works in Paris between 1841 and 1872. Volume 1 contains histories by Hecataeus, Charon of Lampascus, and Apollodorus of Athens.

Karl Muller (1813-1894) published this monumental and still unrivalled collection of the surviving fragments of Greek historical works in Paris between 1841 and 1872. Volume 2, published in 1843, includes the histories of Diodorus Siculus, Polybius, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus.

Karl Muller (1813-1894) published this monumental and still unrivalled collection of the surviving fragments of Greek historical works in Paris between 1841 and 1872. Volume 3, published in 1849, includes works of the period from 247 BCE until the Roman conquest in 146 BCE.

Karl Muller (1813-1894) published this monumental and still unrivalled collection of the surviving fragments of Greek historical works in Paris between 1841 and 1872. Volume 4, published in 1851, runs from 306 CE until 610 CE, and includes the first modern edition of John of Antioch's writings.

Karl Muller (1813-1894) published this monumental and still unrivalled collection of the surviving fragments of Greek historical works in Paris between 1841 and 1872. The final volume of his Fragmenta contains fragments of Greek and Byzantine historians, and some Greek and Syrian works preserved in Armenian writings.

Henry John Roby (1830-1915) was a Cambridge-educated classicist specialising in Roman Law. First published in 1884, this volume discusses the historical and legal context of Justinian's Digesta and provides the Latin text of De Usufructu (one of the titles from the Digesta) with detailed close textual analysis.

William Young Sellar (1825-1890) was a classical scholar specialising in the analysis of Roman poetry. This volume, first published posthumously in 1891, discusses the forms and development of Roman poetry in the reign of Augustus, and was considered the standard reference for the development of Augustan Roman poetry.

Emil Baehrens published this text and commentary of the first-century BCE Latin poet Catullus between 1876 and 1885. It was considered groundbreaking for its analysis of the medieval manuscripts of the poems, and although many editions have since been published, Baehrens' work is still of interest to scholars.

Diels' Doxographi Graeci (1879) inaugurated the critical discipline of doxography - the editing, cataloguing, and analysing of extracts of classical texts that contain references to the ideas and arguments of lost authors and schools. Diels analyses passages from a range of Greek authors to uncover the ideas of the Presocratic philosophers.

Edwyn Bevan, a scholar of early Christianity as well as of the Hellenistic period, collates written and archaeological sources to describe the creation of an eastern empire by Seleucus, one of the successors of Alexander the Great. This two-volume 1902 work covers the rise and fall of the Seleucid dynasty.

The Cambridge classicist Sir John Sandys published this three-volume history between 1903 and 1908. It remains the only large-scale work spanning the entire history of classical studies from the sixth century BCE to 1900. Volume 1 covers the Classical period, Byzantine scholarship and the medieval West to 1350.

The Cambridge classicist Sir John Sandys published this three-volume history between 1903 and 1908. It remains the only large-scale work spanning the entire history of classical studies from the sixth century BCE to 1900. Volume 2 covers the period from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century.

The Cambridge classicist Sir John Sandys published this three-volume history between 1903 and 1908. It remains the only large-scale work spanning the entire history of classical studies from the sixth century BCE to 1900. Volume 3 covers the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Adolphus William Ward's translation of 1868-1873 made Curtius' seminal work (first published in German between 1857 and 1867) available to the Victorian reading public. Volume 1 covers the period before the so-called Dorian migrations, and the development of Attica and the Peloponnese up until the Persian wars.

In this three-volume work on tragedy, published between 1839 and 1841, Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1784-1868) attempts to reconstruct all the lost trilogies and tetralogies of Greek tragic theatre, insisting on their artistic unity, and demonstrating their fundamental debt to the Epic Cycle.

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.