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• Rok vydání 2009

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

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

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• Rok vydání 2018

Though attributed to Hesiod (eighth or seventh century BC) in antiquity, the Catalogue of Women, a presentation of legendary…

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• Rok vydání 1998

Richly illustrated and delightfully written, Journey to the Ants combines autobiography and scientific lore to convey the…

• Počet stran 528
• Rok vydání 2018

In his treatises Hygiene, Thrasybulus, and On Exercise with a Small Ball, Galen of Pergamum addresses topics of preventive…

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

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' 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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Enquiry into Plants and De Causis Plantarum by Theophrastus (ca. 370-ca. 285 BC) are a counterpart to Aristotle's zoological…

The surviving works of the Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate (331 or 332 363 CE) include eight Orations; Misopogon…

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

• Počet stran 512

Enquiry into Plants and De Causis Plantarum by Theophrastus (ca. 370-ca. 285 BC) are a counterpart to Aristotle's zoological…

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• Rok vydání 1974

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

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• Rok vydání 1999

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

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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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Silius Italicus composed an epic Punica in 17 books on the Second Punic War. His poem relies largely on Livy's prose for…

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• Rok vydání 2001

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

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

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• Rok vydání 1989

Prudentius used allegory and classical Latin verse forms in service of Christianity. His works include the Psychomachia, an…

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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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• Rok vydání 1984

Plotinus was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited by his disciple Porphyry, who…

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• Rok vydání 2004

The poetry of Horace (born 65 BC) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural…

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• Rok vydání 1992

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

• Počet stran 624
• Rok vydání 2015

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

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

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

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• Rok vydání 1992

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

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

• Počet stran 528
• Rok vydání 1995

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

• Počet stran 464
• Rok vydání 2012

This volume, the tenth of Hippocrates' invaluable texts on the practice of medicine in antiquity, provides essential…

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

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

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Volume I of the Loeb Hippocrates presents an exemplary selection of works by or attributed to the "Father of Medicine" that…

• Počet stran 624
• Rok vydání 2011

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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• Rok vydání 1988

Anacreon was a composer of solo song. The Anacreonta are poems attributed to him in antiquity that are no longer considered…

• Počet stran 464
• Rok vydání 2003

The writings of the Apostolic Fathers (first and second centuries AD) give a rich and diverse picture of Christian life and…

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Tertullian founded a Christian Latin language and literature, strove to unite the demands of the Bible with Church practice,…

• Počet stran 496

In his most influential work, the Metamorphoses, Ovid (43 BC-AD 17) weaves a hexametric whole from a huge range of myths,…

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• Rok vydání 2021

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

• Počet stran 464

The importance of Isocrates (436-338 BC) for the study of Greek civilization of the fourth century BC is indisputable.…

• Počet stran 448
• Rok vydání 2022

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

Drawing on the preceding literary traditions of epic, lyric, and tragedy, this book creates a complex narrative that…

• Počet stran 544

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

• Počet stran 512
• Rok vydání 1982

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

• Počet stran 592
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Works in this volume explore the relationship between two people known as love (eros) or friendship (philia). In Lysis,…

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…