
Library of History - Diodorus, Siculus
Diodorus Library of History, written in the first century BCE, is the most extensively preserved history by an ancient Greek…
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Diodorus Library of History, written in the first century BCE, is the most extensively preserved history by an ancient Greek…
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![Populárně naučná literatura pro dospělé The Odyssey - Homér [EN] (1995, Brožovaná, Harvard University Press)](/img/image-placeholder.png)
The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer (eighth century BCE) are the two oldest European epic poems. The latter tells of Odysseus…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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![Populárně naučná literatura pro dospělé Astronomica - Manilius, Marcus [EN] (1989, Vázaná, Harvard University Press)](/img/image-placeholder.png)
In Astronomica (first century CE), the earliest extant treatise we have on astrology, Manilius provides an account of…
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![Populárně naučná literatura pro dospělé The Learned Banqueters - Athenaeus [EN] (2008, Vázaná, Harvard University Press)](/img/image-placeholder.png)
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…
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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,…
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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,…
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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…
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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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![Populárně naučná literatura pro dospělé Ecclesiastical History - Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea [EN] (1989, Vázaná, Harvard University Press)](/img/image-placeholder.png)
Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea from about 315 CE, was the most important writer in the age of Constantine. His history of the…
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