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Plato: On PoetryCambridge Greek and Latin Classics 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 poetry, since the early years of this century. This volume brings together these texts and the relevant section of Republic 10. It aims to provide the reader with a commentary which

and in Part 2 all major constructions are covered

Caesar and Ovid

Short treatises attributed to a great mind

In the middle of the night

But it is only since 1844 that some of the actual texts of Menander's plays have been rediscovered

Problems of syntax and language are fully explained

the book also features a brief biography of Cicero

67–71 and 74–75

Index of names

Απελπισμένος

XII (Rebuff to Darius)

The commentary explains as far as possible any obscurities in these fields and also deals with matters of linguistic interest