The Civil War thrust millions of men and women-rich and poor, soldiers and civilians, enslaved and free-onto the roads of…

Relations among the United States, Taiwan, and China challenge policymakers, international relations specialists, and a…

In A Cultural History of Modern Science in China, Elman has retold the story of the Jesuit impact on late imperial China,…

In Mrs. Tully's Room tells the story of the comforting and compelling community created by the center's gifted director.…

D'Elia offers a compelling, surprising story that reveals a Renaissance world that witnessed the rebirth of interest in the…

Part riveting account of fieldwork and part rigorous academic study, this book offers a unique perspective on the…

Friedman chronicles the remarkable metamorphosis of the American salesman from itinerant amateur to trained expert. From the…

Euripides (ca. 485-406 BC) has been prized in every age for his emotional and intellectual drama. Eighteen of his ninety or…

\nThe Sound of Modern Polish Poetry unearths recordings from Polish poets such as Czeslaw Milosz, Wislawa Szymborska, and…

\nLaw and policy treat corruption as something far less than it truly is. Using India\'s long history as a case study,…

\nAndrew Kornbluth offers the first account of the August Trials, Poland\'s halting judicial reckoning with wartime…

Pausanias (fl. 150 CE), one of the Roman world s great travelers, sketches in Description of Greece the history, geography,…

In the melancholy elegies of the Tristia and the Ex Ponto, Ovid (43 BCE 17 CE) writes as from exile in Tomis on the Black…

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Polybius's theme is how and why the Romans spread their power as they did. The main part of his history covers the years…

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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…

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

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

Volume VI of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the later Ionian and Athenian thinkers…

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

Virgil (70-19 BC) was a poet of immense virtuosity and influence. His Eclogues deal with bucolic life and love, his Georgics…

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

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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…

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

\nLivy (Titus Livius, 64 or 59 BC-AD 12 or 17), the great Roman historian, presents a vivid narrative of Rome\'s rise from…

The most important poets writing in Greek in the sixth century BCE came from Sicily and southern Italy. They included…

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, born c. 60 BCE, aimed in his critical essays to reassert the primacy of Greek as the literary…

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, born c. 60 BCE, aimed in his critical essays to reassert the primacy of Greek as the literary…

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…

The six plays by Terence (died 159 BCE), all extant, imaginatively reformulate Greek New Comedy in realistic scenes and…

Antiphon of Athens, born c. 480 BCE, disliked democracy and was an ardent oligarch. Of his fifteen extant works three…

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

Greek mathematics from the sixth century BC to the fourth century AD is represented by works of Pythagoras, Proclus, Thales,…

Greek mathematics from the sixth century BC to the fourth century AD is represented by works of Pythagoras, Proclus, Thales,…

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

In letters to his friend Atticus, Cicero (106-43 BC) reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his…

Apuleius (born ca. AD 125), one of the great stylists of Latin literature, was a prominent figure in Roman Africa best known…

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

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

Eight works or parts of works were ascribed to Manetho, a third century BCE Egyptian, all on history and religion and all…

Libanius (314 393 CE), who was one of the last great publicists and teachers of Greek paganism, has much to tell us about…

Lucian (c. 120 190 CE), apprentice sculptor then travelling rhetorician, settled in Athens and developed an original brand…

Pliny the Elder (23 79 CE) produced in his Natural History a vast compendium of Roman knowledge. Topics included are the…

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

Libanius (314 393 CE), who was one of the last great publicists and teachers of Greek paganism, has much to tell us about…