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George Washington spent most of his time farming, often employing experimental methods. Washington saw slave-powered…

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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…

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

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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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Intention is one of the masterworks of 20th-century philosophy. First published in 1957, it has acquired the status of a…

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

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

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Aulus Gellius in Attic Nights (Gellius began to write these pieces during stays in Athens) composed a collection of short…

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The poetry of Horace is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, Stoic…

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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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Aelian's Historical Miscellany (Varia Historia) is a pleasurable example of light reading for Romans of the early third…

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

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

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Eight works or parts of works were ascribed to Manetho of Egypt, all on history and religion and all apparently in Greek.…

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

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

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Bite and wit characterize two seminal and stellar authors in the history of satirical writing, Persius (AD 34-62) and…

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

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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…

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

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

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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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Lucian (ca. AD 120-190), apprentice sculptor then traveling rhetorician, settled in Athens and developed an original brand…

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Of the roughly seventy treatises in the Hippocratic Collection, many are not by Hippocrates (said to have been born in Cos…

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

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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…

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

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In the three works in this volume, On the Constitution of the Art of Medicine, The Art of Medicine, and A Method of Medicine…

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

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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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In addition to the Homeric Hymns, this volume contains fragments of five comic poems that were connected with Homer's name…

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

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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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Ammianus, a Greek from Antioch, served many years as an officer in the Roman army, then settled in Rome, where he wrote a…

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

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Statius's Silvae, thirty-two occasional poems, were written probably between AD 89 and 96. The verse is light in touch, with…

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Pindar (ca. 518-438 BC), esteemed lyric poet, commemorates in complex verse the achievements of athletes and powerful rulers…

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In On the Characteristics of Animals, Aelian (ca. 170-after AD 230) collects facts and fables about the animal kingdom and…

• Počet stran 528
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This eleventh and final volume in the Loeb Classical Library's complete edition of Hippocrates' invaluable texts contains…