This epic poem concerns Dionysus' earthly career from birth at Thebes to reception on Olympus. In a poem full of mythology,…

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

Silius Italicus (25 101 CE) composed an epic Punica in 17 books on the Second Punic War (218 202 BCE). Silius poem relies…

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

The six plays by Terence (d. 159 BC), all extant, imaginatively reformulate Greek New Comedy in realistic scenes and refined…

• Rok vydání 2001

Empire, as Hardt and Negri demonstrate, is the new political order of globalization. Their book shows how this emerging…

Offers an English translation of the plays composed by Euripides between 455 and 406 BCE together with a selection of…

Volume IX of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the so-called sophists Antiphon, Lycophron, and…

The major works by Josephus are History of the Jewish War, from 170 BC to his own time, and Jewish Antiquities, from…

Dio Chrysostomus (c. 40 c. 120 CE) was a rhetorician hostile to philosophers, whose Discourses (or Orations) reflect…

• Rok vydání 1989

On the City of God unfolds God's action in the progress of the world's history, and propounds the superiority of Christian…

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The historian Polybius (ca 200-118 BCE) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served…

In Frogs Dionysus, on a journey to the underworld, is recruited to judge a contest between the traditional Aeschylus and the…

\nJustin’s artfully condensed version of the lost Philippic History of Trogus, a contemporary of Livy, is a universal…

Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), c. 150 235 CE, was born in Bithynia. Little of his Roman History survives, but missing portions…

• Rok vydání 1995

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

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

The main part of Polybius' history covers the years 264--146 BCE, describing the rise of Rome, her destruction of Carthage,…

The writings of the Apostolic Fathers give a rich and diverse picture of Christian life and thought in the period…

The Anabasis by Xenophon (c. 430 c. 354 BCE) is an eyewitness account of Greek mercenaries' challenging 'March Up-Country'…

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

\nThe prolific scholar-poet Callimachus of Cyrene spent his career at the royal court and great Library at Alexandria.…

The main aim of Roman Antiquities, which began to appear in 7 BC, was to reconcile Greeks to Roman rule. Of the twenty books…

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 BC) 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 BC) that Thucydides was still unifying into…

In the didactic poetry of Face Cosmetics, Art of Love, and Remedies for Love, Ovid (43 BC-AD 17) demonstrates abstrusity and…

The major works by Josephus are History of the Jewish War, from 170 BC to his own time, and Jewish Antiquities, from…

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

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

\nAlthough 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 AD 314, 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.…

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

• Latina

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…

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

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.…

Aurelius Augustine (AD 354-430), one of the most important figures in western Christianity and philosophy, was the son of a…

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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…

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

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

• Rok vydání 1989

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

Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), c. 150 235 CE, was born in Bithynia. Little of his Roman History survives, but missing portions…

Livius Andronicus, Naevius, and Caecilius were highly influential pioneers in the creation and development of Latin poetry,…

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

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