Loeb Classical Texts - Blackwells 2 for 25 offer

[D B Campbell]

For me the golden rule is buy a Loeb if it's a fairly recent and handy edition.

Certainly, some of the older ones are a bit odd, but few are actively to be avoided (the Vitruvius springs to mind!). If the translator has stuck to the Teubner text, there's usually no problem, don't you think?

So I desperately want Apollodoros' Bibliotheke but the book itself is very old, by Frazer, so instead I'll wait for a (hopefully) new edition.

I don't think the Teubner text (Wagner, 1894) has been superseded (although Frazer made a few emendations in the Loeb). His Greek text, English translation, and copious notes are (as you probably know) available at Perseus: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/.

His translation attracted little criticism, so it must be basically sound (apart from his bizarre version of the accursed King Minos' lovemaking, during which "he discharged wild beasts at [his lover's] joints" (εἰς τὰ ἄρθρα) -- perhaps Frazer was being prurient, or perhaps he didn't realise that arthra in the plural denote genitals).