Greek and Latin Texts with Facing Vocabulary and Commentary

Revisions soon, Oedipus Tyrannus in the summer

There will be a number of revisions in the coming weeks, and a beta copy of Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus will appear this summer.

I am very grateful for the changes generously recommended by fellow readers of Greek and Latin and regret that I have not made revisions fast enough. I took a year off to pursue extra teaching responsibilities but plan to devote my energies to these commentaries in the coming year.

Commentaries now available for order at university bookstores

I have just expanded the distribution of all commentaries, and readers and teachers alike will now be able to order paperback editions from university bookstores and other online retailers. The process involved in increasing distribution should be completed within the next four weeks.

Up to this moment, readers could purchase paperback editions only on Amazon, and this restriction posed a number of challenges for professors who wanted to make these books available at the local university bookstore at the beginning of each semester. Now teachers can order books for their students with no hassle.

Odyssey 9-12 .pdf revised again (for the 2nd time in December)

I posted the previous digital revision to Odyssey 9-12 too soon. When I examined a proof copy in paperback earlier this month, I noticed that some of the Greek (GFS Porson unicode) in Book 10 was printed in a smaller font size that the Greek in the rest of the volume.

This latest revision (12Dec2012) increases the font size of the Greek in Book 10 so that the font size is uniform throughout the commentary. My apologies for the inconvenience.

The paperback edition now available includes these most recent changes.

Odyssey 9-12 — Greek text revised to GFS Porson (unicode)

A revised edition of Odyssey 9-12 is now available. In addition to a number of corrections to the notes and vocabulary entries, I have replaced the Greek text (non-unicode) with a much more attractive and more readable GFS Porson font (unicode).

This revised edition will appear in paperback in less than a week, but the digital version is now available on the Odyssey 9-12 link at the top of the webpage.

I have also added translation pages (for students) for Books 9 and 10. I hope to include similar pages for Books 11 and 12 during the holiday break.

Herodotus’ Histories Book 1, 2nd ed. in paperback

Despite some reservations, I have made a paperback copy of the 2nd edition available for those readers who wish to use the paperback edition before the revisions are completed. I am continuing to proofread the volume and plan to make several revisions over the coming months.

Unlike the 1st edition, which was a 10 inch x 7 inch volume, this 2nd edition is a 6 inch x 9 inch volume.

Since the 1st edition still comes up in search results on Amazon, I recommend that readers in the US click on the image of the 2nd edition to the right of this post  and that  readers outside of the US use the ISBN number to locate the volume.

An updated .pdf copy of the commentary with a considerably smaller file size is located on this website. If you wish to recommend changes, please do not hesitate to contact me. As always, I am very grateful for your suggestions.

Symposium revised in paperback and in pdf

The Symposium has just been revised. This latest revision corrects a number of typographical errors, especially mistakes involving diacritical marks throughout the grammar notes. In all other respects this most recent revision is like the one which came before.

The file size has been reduced from 50 mb to 10 mb. If you have a digital copy of the commentary, I recommend that you download and replace it with the most recent revision.

Herodotus Book 1 (1st ed.) has been discontinued

The Herodotus I (2009, 1st edition) volume has been discontinued and is no longer available in paperback. The book was the first in this series, and as I have mentioned in a number of emails, the focus of my attention at the time was singly on developing methods of collating vocabulary. The process, in other words, consumed all of my time and effort–as I expected that it would–and as a result proofreading suffered. I could not be happier about what I have learned from the experience, but the notes are not of the same quality as those in the subsequent commentaries. I am confident, however,  that all of the volumes in this series have benefited from this initial effort, and I am very grateful for your support.

The .pdf version of this volume alone has been downloaded over 1600 times since I first made it available. Regrettably, no one has ever suggested corrections.

I still plan to publish the second edition by 20 August 2012, but I have chosen not to make the paperback edition available at Amazon.com until I have thoroughly proofread the grammatical commentary. This process may take 6 months or it may take 1 year, since I have a number of other commitments.  If you or your class would like to receive free paperback copies of the 2nd edition in return for help in the editing process, please contact me. Thank you.

Herodotus Book 1 (2nd edition) updated 13July12

In this latest revision of the 2nd edition, I have replaced the SPIonic legacy font with unicode, a task more challenging than it first appears in a 265-page document.

I have yet to undertake a revision of the notes, so some of the errors persist. Even so, I plan to publish this second edition (6 x 9 inches) in paperback in the coming month and remove the 1st edition (7 x 10) from print. If you have a preference that you wish to express, please feel free to contact me. As always, I will protect the privacy of your comments.

College Caesar revised on 11 July 2012

A number of changes to vocabulary and notes have been made to the digital and paperback versions of College Caesar. The formatting of the book has not been changed, and readers can use and refer to this and previous versions of the commentary without any discrepancies.

I wish to thank J.W. from North Carolina/South Carolina for recommending most of these latest changes.

If you have an earlier digital version of this commentary, I recommend that you discard it and download the latest copy.

All books now available on Amazon in UK, Europe

You can now purchase paperback editions of the commentaries in the UK (Amazon.co.uk) and in Europe (Amazon.fr, Amazon.de, Amazon.es, Amazon.it). The books are printed and mailed locally–so there is no need for international shipping. New titles will be available on these sites at the same time that they appear on Amazon.com in the US.

The pricing of the books in pounds and euros fluctuates automatically with the exchange rate of the US dollar. If the pricing of the books seems exceedingly high to you, please let me know.