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

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The two extant poems of Hesiod (eighth or seventh century BC) are Theogony, in which he charts the history of the divine…

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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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M. Porcius Cato (234-149 BC) remains legendary for his political and military career, his integrity and austere morality,…

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Sallust's two extant monographs take as their theme the moral and political decline of Rome, one on the conspiracy of…

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In his seventeen-book Geography, Strabo (ca. 64 BC-ca. AD 25) discusses geographical method, stresses the value of…

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

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M. Porcius Cato (234-149 BC) remains legendary for his political and military career, his integrity and austere morality,…

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

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Aristophanes has been admired since antiquity for his wit, fantasy, language, and satire. The protagonists of Birds create a…

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

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Aulus Hirtius, friend of and military subordinate to Caesar (100-44 BC), may have written the Alexandrian War. African War…

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Virgil (70-19 BC) was a poet of immense virtuosity and influence. His Eclogues deal with bucolic life and love, his Georgics…

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

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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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The letters of Pliny the Younger (ca. AD 61-ca. 112), a polished social document of his times, include descriptions of 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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Quintilian, born in Spain about AD 35, became a renowned and successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. In The Orator's…

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

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Fronto (c. 100-176 CE), a much admired orator and rhetorician, was befriended by the emperor Antoninus Pius and teacher of…

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

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

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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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Charles Taylor delves into the poetry of the Romantics and their heirs, a foundation of his distinctive philosophy of…

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As the authors show in the first systematic treatment of the subject since the mid-1960s, assimilation continues to shape…

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What Rosen's The Classical Style did for music of the Classical period, this highly praised volume does for the Romantic…

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

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In detailed commentaries on Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, Vendler reveals previously unperceived imaginative and stylistic…

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Maura Dykstra shows how information overload resulting from the administrative revolution of China's eighteenth-century Qing…

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Songs about Women by Romanos the Melodist contains eighteen works related to the liturgical calendar that feature important…

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Paolo Giovio's Portraits of Learned Men provides brief biographies of 146 men from Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio to…

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This volume presents translations from the Greek of two crucial primary sources published together for the first…

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Alan of Lille was renowned for his learning, his contributions to systematic theology, and his Latin poetry. The works…

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Kalidasa's The Lineage of the Raghus, or Raghuva?sa, belongs to the literary tradition of mahakavya, or court poem. It…

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Shah Abdul Latif's Risalo is acknowledged as the greatest classic of Sindhi literature. In this collection of Sufi verses,…

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During the '30s and '40s, Hollywood produced a genre of madcap comedies that emphasized reuniting the central couple after…

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Written in about 1340 by the Benedictine preacher Pierre Bersuire, The Moralized Ovid was a highly influential…

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Mhaimbhat's God at Play, or Li?acaritra, is a remarkable biography of the medieval religious figure Chakradhar Svami,…