Publisher SeriesModern School Classics

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This series of small hardback secondary school textbooks for Latin and Greek students offered selections of intermediate level passages written by the great authors of the Classical world. Each volume included the text in Latin or Greek and (in English) an introduction, notes and vocabulary (most often by a British scholar). The aim of the series was to present classical texts in their original languages accompanied with appropriate notes and vocabulary to assist students in translating the texts and understanding their historical and literary background. Each volume also featured some black and white photographs and drawings and in some cases a frontispiece and maps. In the 1950s the volumes were bound with red cloth with black text on the front panel and on the spine. In the 1960s the volumes were bound with terracotta or olive cloth with pictorial covers (a black and white roundel on the front panel) and black and white text on the front panel and on the spine.
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