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

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

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

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Greek papyri relating to private and public business in Egypt from before 300 BC to the eighth century AD inform us about…

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Of more than seventy works by Varro (116-27 BC) we have only his treatise On Agriculture and part of his On the Latin…

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Cato's second century BC De agricultura is our earliest complete Latin prose text, recommends farming for its security and…

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

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Valerius Maximus compiled his handbook of notable deeds and sayings in the reign of Tiberius (AD 14-37). His professedly…

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Seneca (ca. AD 4 65) authored verse tragedies that strongly influenced Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists. Plots…

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Aristophanes has been admired since antiquity for his wit, fantasy, language, and satire. Over forty of his plays were read…

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

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Claudian displays poetic as well as rhetorical skill in his diverse set of works. A panegyric on the brothers Probinus and…

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Volume II of the Loeb Hippocrates presents eight works by or attributed to the "Father of Medicine" that illustrate the…

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Pausanias, one of the Roman world's great travelers, sketches in Description of Greece the history, geography, landmarks,…

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

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

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In 124 epistles Seneca (ca. 4 BC-AD 65) writes to Lucilius, occasionally about technical problems of philosophy, but more…

Aristophanes of Athens (c 446-386 BC) is considered one of the world's greatest comic dramatists. He wrote 40 plays, 11 of…

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

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Aelius Aristides (117-after 180), among the most versatile authors of the Second Sophistic and an important figure in the…

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

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

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

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Davis retrieves three women's lives from historical obscurity to give us a window onto the early modern world. Glikl bas…

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The greatest dilemma our planet faces is the tradeoff between poverty alleviation, inequality reduction, and climate change.…

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In his new preface E. O. Wilson reflects on how he came to write this book: how The Insect Societies led him to write…

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

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Dealing with climate change means accepting tough tradeoffs: giving up certain energy sources, products, and conveniences,…

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The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion which had been growing for more…

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Dio Chrysostom (AD ca. 40-ca. 120) was a rhetorician hostile to philosophers, whose Discourses reflect political or moral…

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As Spang explains, during the 1760s and 1770s, sensitive, self-described sufferers made public show of their delicacy by…

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

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Volume II of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy presents preliminary chapters on ancient doxography, the…

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

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

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Confessions is a spiritual autobiography of Augustine's early life, family, associations, and explorations of alternative…

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

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The Rhetorica ad Herrenium was traditionally attributed to Cicero (106-43 BC), and reflects, as does Cicero's De Inventione,…

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Philostratus "the Elder" or "the Athenian" (2nd to mid-3rd c.) and Eunapius (ca. 345-415) provide fascinating intellectual…

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

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The first complete English-language collection of Simone Weil’s letters to her loved ones, A Life in Letters deepens…

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We often think of the Balkans as a region beset by turmoil and backwardness, but from late antiquity to the present it has…

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The authors consider the intersection of Daoism and ecology, looking at the theoretical and historical implications…

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Old English Shorter Poems offers tantalizing insights into the Anglo-Saxon mental landscape. These poems and charms find…

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Modern philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the world. In Mind and World,…

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Chinese Animation is the first edited book that explores the multiple histories, geographies, industries, technologies,…

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The Menologion of Basil II, one of the most famous manuscripts surviving from Byzantium, contains short narratives to be…