What was funny about ancient jokes, and why? Why did the Roman state legislate to curb the behaviour of its obscenely rich and powerful elite, if it never really expected such laws to be obeyed? Why did it oppress the poor, and lavish public child support on them? These are important questions, but ancient Greeks and Romans could never have thought of them. They never questioned the right of the rich to be rich. They could not improve their understanding of Homeric gift-giving with the experience of ritualized friendship among the Trobriand islanders. Such questions and such answers can only come from those who live after the ancient past. This volume honours the well-known Dutch epigraphist and ancient historian H.W. Pleket. Ten substantial essays reflect his wide range, from early Greece to the Roman Empire, and his taste for comparative economic and social history.

Essays over hedendaagse Nederlandstalige poëzie.

Keuze van fragmenten uit het werk van Cicero en Sallustius over de staatsgreep van de Romeinse aristocraat Catilina in 63 v.Chr.

Vier redevoeringen van de Romeinse politicus (106-43 v. Chr.).

Bevat een pleidooi na aanklacht wegens toverkunsten, met humor en welsprekendheid. 

Het uitdragen en visualiseren van de eigen lokale of regionale geschiedenis werd in de late middeleeuwen en de vroegmoderne tijd als een belangrijke taak van literatuur, beeldende kunsten en architectuur beschouwd. Als bronnen werden niet alleen de klassieke schrijvers gebruikt, maar ook middeleeuwse kronieken, lyriek van de minnezangers, (echte en vervalste) inscripties en archeologische voorwerpen, en bovendien ruïnes uit allerlei periodes die men veelal op een creatieve manier interpreteerde. Monumentale gebouwen, of de resten daarvan, golden bij uitstek als bewijs van de grootsheid en ouderdom van de voorouders.

Contained in this volume is a book by Aristotle on the subject of logic or as the author would describe it, analytics. Topics is presented here in this volume translated by W.A. Pickard-Cambridge. This volume together with - Categories, On Interpretation, and On Sophistical Refutations -, and - Prior Analytics and Posterior Analytics - forms the  - Organon - or complete books of Aristotelian logic. Students of classical philosophy and literature will find this volume of much interest.

Contained in this volume are books by Aristotle on the subject of logic or as the author would describe it, analytics. 'Categories, On Interpretation, and On Sophistical Refutations' are collected here in this volume translated by E. M. Edghill and W. A. Pickard-Cambridge. This volume together with 'Prior Analytics and Posterior Analytics', and 'Topics' forms the 'Organon' or complete books of Aristotelian logic. Students of classical philosophy and literature will find this volume of much interest.

Vertaling van het 21e boek van "Ab urbe condita" van de Romeinse geschiedschrijver (59 v. Chr. - 17 n. Chr.)

This edition of the first book of Ovid's "Amores" was first published in 1973 by OUP. It has been kept in print by BCP because it remains an outstandlingly useful volume. It was one of two editions (the other being Gordon Williams' "Horace 'Odes' III", 1969) in which OUP pioneered a new kind of continuous running commentary particularly suited to short poems, one 'likely to be more illuminating than a series of disconnected notes on isolated problems, which may contribute little to the total understanding of the poem as the poet conceived it'. This approach was intended to promote in sixth-formers and undergraduates not just an understanding of the Latin but a critical appreciation of literary quality. In this aim, the edition has been a continued success.

Gids voor het lezen van het eerste boek van de Ilias in het Grieks. Met rompgrammatica en woordenlijst - concordans

Levensbeschrijvingen van de eerste twaalf Romeinse keizers door de Romeinse historicus (ca. 70-ca. 150).

Ronald Mellor demonstrates that Roman historical writing was regarded by its authors as a literary, not a scholarly exercise, and how it must be evaluated in that context.

Een jonge Griekse vrouw trouwt met een oudere Duitse archeoloog die rond 1870 op onorthodoxe wijze opgravingen doet in Troje.

Zeven redevoeringen van de Oudgriekse redenaar (440-380 v. Chr.).

Geschiedwerk van de Romeinse historicus (ca. 55 tot 120 na Chr.) over de periode na de dood van Nero, het zg. vierkeizerjaar (69-70 na Chr.).