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

• Rok vydání 1912

Theocritus (early third century BC) was the inventor of the bucolic genre, also known as pastoral. The present edition of…

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

• Latina

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

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

We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman.…

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

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

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

History of the Wars by the Byzantine historian Procopius (late fifth century to after 558 CE) consists largely of sixth…

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

Anacreon (c. 570 485 BCE) was a composer of solo song. The Anacreonta were composed over several centuries. Notable among…

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

The main aim of Dionysius of Halicarnassus Roman Antiquities, which began to appear in 7 BCE, was to reconcile Greeks to…

Sappho, the most famous woman poet of antiquity, whose main theme was love, and Alcaeus, poet of wine, war, and politics,…

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

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

On Architecture, completed by Vitruvius sometime before 27 BC and the only work of its kind to survive antiquity, serves not…

The great Athenian philosopher Plato was born in 427 BC and lived to be eighty. Acknowledged masterpieces among his works…

The Greek Anthology contains some 4,500 Greek poems in the sparkling, diverse genre of epigram, written by more than a…

Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BC) is the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms. Seven of his…

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

The only extant work by Livy is part of his history of Rome from the foundation of the city to 9 BC. Of its 142 books 1-10,…

• Čeština

Volume I of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy presents the editors' preface and introductory notes…

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

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…

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

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

Diogenes Laertius (probably early third century BCE) compiled his compendium on the lives and doctrines of the ancient…

\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 315 CE, was the most important writer in the age of Constantine. His history of the…

In his epic The Civil War, Lucan (39 65 CE) carries us from Caesar s fateful crossing of the Rubicon, through the Battle of…

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

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

Volume IV of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy presents Pythagoras and the Pythagorean School,…

Pliny the Elder produced in his Natural History a vast compendium of Roman knowledge. Topics included are the mathematics…

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

The foremost historian of Greek religion providers the first comprehensive, comparative study of a little-known aspect of…

From the origins of the term "race" to the cultural sources of the "Tragic Mulatto," and from the calculus of color to the…

Sartre has written a long overdue and comprehensive history of the Semitic Near East (modern Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and…

Brown documents the efforts of indigenous peoples to redefine heritage as a proprietary resource. By focusing on the…

Ammianus (c. 325 c. 395 CE), a Greek from Antioch, served many years as an officer in the Roman army, then settled in Rome,…

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

After personal inquiry and study of hearsay and other evidence, Herodotus (born c. 484 BCE) gives us in his famous history…

• Čeština

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

• Čeština

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

• Rok vydání 1989

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

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