An exciting series that provides students with direct access to the ancient world by offering new translations of extracts from its key texts.

In this sequel to Historiography And Imagination (UEP 1994), Professor Wiseman explores the question of how the Romans understood their own past and the role of

Roman plays have been well studied individually (even including fragmentary or spurious ones more recently). However, they have not always been placed into thei

Roman tragedies were written for over three hundred years, but only fragments remain of plays that predate the works of Seneca in the mid-first century C.E., ma

Theatre flourished in the Roman Republic, from the tragedies of Ennius and Pacuvius to the comedies of Plautus and Terence and the mimes of Laberius. Yet apart