Plutarch (ca. AD 45'-120) wrote on many subjects. His forty-six Parallel Lives are biographies planned to be ethical…

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

The Historia Augusta is a biographical collection written by a single author under six pseudonyms that covers the lives of…

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

• Rok vydání 1989

Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea from about 315 CE, was the most important writer in the age of Constantine. His history of the…

Library of History is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander''s death (323 BC); history to…

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

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

Quintus Curtius wrote a history of Alexander the Great. The first two of ten books have not survived and material is missing…

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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…

Attributed to Apollodorus of Athens (born ca. 180 BC) but probably composed in the first or second century AD, the Library…

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

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

Diogenes Laertius compiled his compendium on the lives and doctrines of the ancient philosophers from hundreds of sources.…

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

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

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

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,…

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

Plutarch (ca. AD 45'-120) wrote on many subjects. His forty-six Parallel Lives are biographies planned to be ethical…

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

Library of History is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander''s death (323 BC); history to…

Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero''s reign who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was…

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

• Rok vydání 2010

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

Plutarch (ca. AD 45'-120) wrote on many subjects. His forty-six Parallel Lives are biographies planned to be ethical…

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,…

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

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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 surviving works of the Roman Emperor Julian '"the Apostate'" (AD 331 or 332'-363) include eight Orations; Misopogon…

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

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

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

This volume contains the poetic fragments of the two illustrious singers of early sixth-century Lesbos: Sappho, the most…

• 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…

Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero''s reign who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was…

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

• 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…

Plutarch (ca. AD 45'-120) wrote on many subjects. His forty-six Parallel Lives are biographies planned to be ethical…

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

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

Quintus Curtius wrote a history of Alexander the Great. The first two of ten books have not survived and material is missing…

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

In his Life of Apollonius Philostratus (second to third century AD) chronicles the miracles of first-century AD teacher,…

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

Justin''s artfully condensed version of the lost Philippic History of Trogus, a contemporary of Livy, is a universal history…

Cyropaedia is a historical romance on the education of the sixth-century BC Persian king Cyrus the Great that reflects…