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

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

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

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AĂ«tius' Placita (ca. AD 100) is a reconstructed compendium summarizing the principal doctrines and opinions of the Greek…

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

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• Rok vydání 2007

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

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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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Quintus Ennius (239-169 BC), widely regarded as the father of Roman literature, was instrumental in creating a new Roman…

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

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

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

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

• Počet stran 592

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

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Although Cicero's oratory is well attested-of 106 known speeches, fifty-eight survive intact or in large part-the sixteen…

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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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In his epic The Civil War, Lucan (AD 39-65) carries us from Caesar's fateful crossing of the Rubicon, through the Battle of…

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Callirhoe, subtitled "Love Story in Syracuse," is a fast-paced historical romance of the first century AD and the oldest…

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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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• Rok vydání 1994

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

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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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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 Astronomica (first century AD), the earliest extant treatise we have on astrology, Manilius provides a poetic account of…

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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…

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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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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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After personal inquiry and study of hearsay and other evidence, Herodotus (born ca. 484 BC) gives us in his famous history…

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Longus' Daphnis and Chloe (second or early third century AD), in which an idealized pastoral environment provides the…

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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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Frontinus' Stratagems, written after AD 84, gives examples of military stratagems and discipline from Greek and Roman…

• Počet stran 416
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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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Sallust's two extant monographs take as their theme the moral and political decline of Rome, one on the conspiracy of…

• Počet stran 496

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
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In Method of Medicine, Galen provides a comprehensive and influential account of the principles of treating injury and…

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Livius Andronicus, Naevius, and Caecilius were highly influential pioneers in the creation and development of Latin poetry,…

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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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In Fishing, Oppian discusses fish and gives angling instructions. The Chase, on hunting, may be the work of a Syrian…

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Volume VIII of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the so-called sophists Protagoras, Gorgias,…

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