Diodorus Library of History, written in the first century BCE, is the most extensively preserved history by an ancient Greek…

The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer (eighth century BCE) are the two oldest European epic poems. The latter tells of Odysseus…

The Peloponnesian War was really three conflicts (431-421, 415-413, and 413-404 BCE) that Thucydides was still unifying into…

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The Major Declamations, attributed to Quintilian in antiquity, exemplify the final stage of Greco-Roman rhetorical training,…

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A series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work provides quotations from…

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Of the roughly seventy treatises in the Hippocratic Collection, many are not by Hippocrates (said to have been born in Cos…

The major works of Josephus (c. 37 after 97 CE) are History of the Jewish War, from 170 BCE to his own time, and Jewish…

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The greatest dilemma our planet faces is the tradeoff between poverty alleviation, inequality reduction, and climate change.…

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The comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205-184 BC, are the earliest Latin…

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Enriched by anecdotes, gossip, and details of character and personal appearance, Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius (born ca.…

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In the three works in this volume, On the Constitution of the Art of Medicine, The Art of Medicine, and A Method of Medicine…

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Sophocles (497/6–406 BC), considered one of the world’s greatest poets, forged tragedy from the heroic excess of myth and…

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Diogenes Laertius compiled his compendium on the lives and doctrines of the ancient philosophers from hundreds of sources.…

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Plutarch (ca. AD 45-120) wrote on many subjects. His extant works other than the Parallel Lives are varied, about sixty in…

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Although Cicero's oratory is well attested-of 106 known speeches, fifty-eight survive intact or in large part-the sixteen…

Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea from about 315 CE, was the most important writer in the age of Constantine. His history of the…

This collection of edited and fully annotated Homeric texts offer fresh solutions to a number of textual puzzles.…

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Nearly all the works Aristotle (384-322 BC) prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are…

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Libanius, one of the last great publicists and teachers of Greek paganism, has much to tell us about the tumultuous world of…

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Sophocles (497/6-406 BC), considered one of the world's greatest poets, forged tragedy from the heroic excess of myth and…

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Ammianus, a Greek from Antioch, served many years as an officer in the Roman army, then settled in Rome, where he wrote a…

For this six-volume edition of The Histories, W. R. Paton's 1922 translation has been thoroughly revised, the Buttner-Wobst…

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Danto argues that recent developments in art-in particular the production of works that cannot be told from ordinary…

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Statius's Silvae, thirty-two occasional poems, were written probably between AD 89 and 96. The verse is light in touch, with…

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Pindar (ca. 518-438 BC), esteemed lyric poet, commemorates in complex verse the achievements of athletes and powerful rulers…

In Astronomica (first century CE), the earliest extant treatise we have on astrology, Manilius provides an account of…

Describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature.…

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This eleventh and final volume in the Loeb Classical Library's complete edition of Hippocrates' invaluable texts contains…

One of antuiquity's foremost poets, Euripides (c 485-406 BC) has been prized for the pathos, terror, surprising plot twists…

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Longus' Daphnis and Chloe (second or early third century AD), in which an idealized pastoral environment provides the…

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The two extant poems of Hesiod (eighth or seventh century BC) are Theogony, in which he charts the history of the divine…

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Volume V of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the western Greek thinkers Parmenides, Zeno,…

Civil War provides a vigorous, direct, clear, third-personal, impassioned account of Caesar's campaigns during the civil war…

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M. Porcius Cato (234-149 BC) remains legendary for his political and military career, his integrity and austere morality,…

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Appian (ca. AD 95-161) is a principal source for the history of the Roman Republic. His theme is the process by which Rome…

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Sallust's two extant monographs take as their theme the moral and political decline of Rome, one on the conspiracy of…

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History of the Wars by Procopius (late fifth century to after AD 558) consists largely of sixth-century military history,…

The Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass) of Apuleius (born c. 125 CE) is a romance combining realism and magic. Lucius wants the…

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In his Life of Apollonius Philostratus (second to third century AD) chronicles the miracles of first-century AD teacher,…

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Volume VIII of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the so-called sophists Protagoras, Gorgias,…

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Ammianus, a Greek from Antioch, served many years as an officer in the Roman army, then settled in Rome, where he wrote a…

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Aristophanes has been admired since antiquity for his wit, fantasy, language, and satire. The protagonists of Birds create a…

In Secret History the Byzantine historian Procopius (late fifth century to after 558 CE) attacks the sixth century CE…

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Plutarch (ca. AD 45-120) wrote on many subjects. His forty-six Parallel Lives are biographies planned to be ethical examples…

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Hirschman maps the diffuse and treacherous world of reactionary rhetoric in which conservative public figures, thinkers, and…

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Seneca (ca. AD 4 65) authored verse tragedies that strongly influenced Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists. Plots…

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In his history, Polybius (ca. 200-118 BC) is centrally concerned with how and why Roman power spread. The main part of the…

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Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea from about 315 CE, was the most important writer in the age of Constantine. His history of the…