The Good Texts Guide

Our intention in compiling the comments has been to provide practical information for teachers choosing and recommending books at any level. Many of the titles in the GUIDE belong to series that are largely uniform in style, so that acquaintance with one book in the series can indicate what to expect of another. Such series are listed on p.3.

We have provided detailed comments where we were able to access a commentary. The amount of specifically linguistic help provided by each commentary is indicated by a (necessarily somewhat rough-and-ready) classification as given below. This is only one of the possible aspects of a commentary, and
other aspects are considered in additional comments.

Linguistic Help:
L1 Helping the reader to construe Greek and Latin is the major concern of the commentary
L2 Commentary which offers substantial linguistic help particularly where more difficult passages are involved
L3 Any help in construing the text is incidental to the other aims of the commentary

In recent years many titles have moved from one publisher to another. In such cases the current publisher is shown first, and the original in brackets, along with the original date of publication.

The information in this GUIDE is as accurate as we can make it, but the availability of books and, especially, the prices may change at any time. Please send suggestions for corrections or additions to office@jact.org. It would be helpful to the Working Party to know what aspects of the GUIDE teachers find useful and what improvements they would like to see.

PUBLISHERS MOST FREQUENTLY CITED IN THE GUIDE

APA American Philological Association, Scholars Press, P.O. Box 6996 Atlanta, Georgia, 30239-6996. Tel: 404 475 9245

A&P Aris & Phillips Ltd., Teddington House, Warminster, Wilts., BA12 8PG. Tel: 01985 213409. Fax: 01985 212910. Email: Aris.Phillips@btinternet.com

BCP Bristol Classical Press, an imprint of Duckworth, 61 Frith Street, London W1D 3JL Tel: 020 7434 4242. Fax. 020 7434 4420 Email: info@duckworth-publishers.co.uk Web: www.ducknet.co.uk

BMC Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Dept. of Greek, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010-2899, USA. Distributed by Hackett Publishing, PO Box 44937, Indianapolis, IN 46244-0937, USA. Tel: 1-317-635-9250. Fax: 1-800-783-9213.  Email: customer@hackettpublishing.com. Web: www.hackettpublishing.com

Bolchazy Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1000 Brown Street, Unit 101, Wauconda, Il 60084, USA. Tel: 847-526-4344. Fax: 847-526-2867. Email: orders@bolchazy.com. Web: www.bolchazy.com

Cairns Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd., P.O.Box 296, Cambridge, CB4 3GE. Tel./fax. 0151 652 9810. Email: sandra.cairns@tiscali.co.uk. Distributed by Oxbow Books, Park End Place, Oxford, OX1 1HN. Tel: 01865 241249. Fax: 01865 794449. Email: oxbow@oxbowbooks.com Web: www.oxbowbooks.com

CUP Cambridge University Press, The Edinburgh Building, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge CB2 2RU.  Private Individuals: Tel: (0)1223 326050 Fax: (0)1223 326111 Email: directcustserve@cambridge.org Web: uk.cambridge.org Schools: Tel: (0)1223 325588 Fax: (0)1223 325152 Email: educustserve@cambridge.org Web: uk.cambridge.org

OUP Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP. Tel: 01865 556767. Fax: 01865 56646 Email: enquiry@oup.co.uk Web: www.oup.co.uk

OTHER ABBREVIATIONS

ARCA ARCA: Classical & Medieval Texts, Papers & Monographs.
CCTC Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, the 'orange' series
CGLC Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, the 'green and yellow' series
CGLCI Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics - Imperial Library
CLC/CLT Cambridge Latin Course/Cambridge Latin Texts
UTP University Tutorial Press
Mac Macmillan

NOTES ON SOME SERIES

Aris and Phillips

The aim of this series is to accommodate students at school and university, and their teachers, who read the authors either in the original Greek or Latin or in translation, or in a mixture of the two. Each book contains an introduction which sets the work in its literary and historical context, a text with facing translation, and a commentary for the most part geared to the translation but in many cases dealing quire frequently with textual and linguistic points.

Bristol Classical Press (imprint of Duckworth)

A major list, but not a uniform series. This list is a mixture of works commissioned by BCP and reprints from other presses.

Bryn Mawr Classics

This series is intended for relatively inexperienced readers, and is essentially a set of construing guides, with Greek or Latin (usually a reprint) accompanied by brief and basic notes.

Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries

This series, the "orange", consists of high level texts and commentaries, usually with facing translation, with detailed introduction and notes intended for scholars and experienced students.

Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

This series, the "green and yellow", is aimed primarily at students at university and in the upper forms of schools, but it is intended also to be useful to scholars. Each edition has a detailed introduction, a text, usually with a selective apparatus, a scholarly commentary giving linguistic help as well as literary interpretation, and metrical analyses where appropriate.

Cambridge Latin Texts

This series is designed for school use. Each title has a text with a glossary on the facing page, and maps as appropriate. The accompanying teacher's handbook provides introduction and commentary.