How To Select A Good Classics Text

Tips on picking editions of Greek and Roman works that will allow you to get the most out of them

A few weeks ago, a friend asked me for a few classical book recommendations. This was a peculiar request for me to fulfill: typically, it’s easy to gesture broadly to the field and tell someone to pick what they like. I came to understand that the true nature of the problem was not that they were looking for an interesting author, but rather an edition …