Oxford Classical Texts From The Art and Popular Culture
Encyclopedia Oxford Classical Texts (OCTs), or Scriptorum
Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, is a series of books
published by Oxford University Press. It contains texts of
ancient Greek and Latin literature, such as Homer's Odyssey and
Virgil's Aeneid, in the original language with a critical
apparatus. Works of science and mathematics, such as Euclid's
Elements, are generally not represented. Since the books are
meant primarily for serious students of the classics, the
prefaces and notes have traditionally been in Latin (so that the
books are written in the classical languages from the title page
to the index), and no translations or explanatory notes are
included. Several recent volumes, beginning with Lloyd-Jones and
Wilson's 1990 edition of Sophocles, have broken with tradition
and feature introductions written in English (though the
critical apparatus is still in Latin). Oxoniensis is an
abbreviation used to denote mainly a single volume of the se