"Pyrrhonian scepticism tells us that answering is not a feature of philosophy in general but a feature of dogmatism." "The Pyrrhonist keeps on inquiring but his inquiry never ends with a result." "Pyrrho had difficulty coping with life by himself and needed to rely on the judgement of others" Every sentence in this book is a gem! It is based on the author's PhD.

Nine essays on Heliodorus' Aithiopika, divided into three sections: narrative technique, the construction of culture and the work's reception by more recent cultures.

Williams shows how an understanding of Ovid's exile poetry is incomplete without recognition of the contribution of Ibis , particularly for its persona and mood.

Ten papers on Republican and Augustan literature, including Ovid's Tristia , Catullus, Horace, Livy, Cicero and Virgil.

Richard Thomas shows how Greek ethnographical prose influenced the poetry of Virgil, Horace and Lucan and their portrayal of real and imagined Roman landscapes and environments. A later prose tradition is also identified in the work of Tacitus.

A collection of notes to amend and explain the 170 poems within Alexander Riese's `Anthologia Latina' (1894).