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The Adelphoe (The Brothers) of Terence is a Latin adaptation of a comedy of the same name by the Greek comic playwright Menander. The theme of the play is the perennially interesting question of the relationship between the generations and the proper way to bring up a son.

This is an edition with commentary of six poems by the Roman poet Ovid. These are the letters, as Ovid imagined them, exchanged between three famous pairs of lovers, Paris and Helen of Troy, Hero and Leander, and Acontius and Cydippe. This is the first commentary in any language since 1898 on these 'double' letters.

This edition of Seneca's De otio and De brevitate vitae introduces students to the complex artistic method and provocative message of Senecan philosophy. It emphasizes the relevance of both works to modern reflection on the claims of the 'balanced' life and on the complex relationship of the individual to society.

Book I of the Histories covers the beginning of the infamous 'Year of the Four Emperors' (69 CE), which brought imperial Rome to the brink of destruction after the demise of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. This edition provides a full commentary and introduction suitable for students at intermediate level and above.