Eighteen of the ninety or so plays composed by Euripides between 455 and 406 BCE survive in a complete form and are included…

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

The great Athenian philosopher Plato was born in 427 BC and lived to be eighty. Acknowledged masterpieces among his works…

Though attributed to Hesiod (eighth or seventh century BC) in antiquity, the Catalogue of Women, a presentation of legendary…

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

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

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

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

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

Maximus of Tyre''s forty-one Philosophical Orations offer a Platonic elucidation of the philosophical life of virtue, and a…

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

The most important poets writing in Greek in the sixth century BCE came from Sicily and southern Italy. Stesichorus was…

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

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, born ca. 60 BC, aimed in his critical essays to reassert the primacy of Greek as the literary…

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

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

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

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, born ca. 60 BC, aimed in his critical essays to reassert the primacy of Greek as the literary…

• Čeština

In letters to his friend Atticus, Cicero (106'-43 BC) reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps…

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

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

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

The great Athenian philosopher Plato was born in 427 BC and lived to be eighty. Acknowledged masterpieces among his works…

Antiphon disliked democracy and was an ardent oligarch. Of his fifteen extant works three concern real murder cases. The…

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

Euripides (ca. 485'-406 BC) has been prized in every age for his emotional and intellectual drama. Eighteen of his ninety or…

• Latina

An anthology of Latin poetry produced during a period of four and a half centuries.…

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

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

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

• Latina

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

Libanius, one of the last great publicists and teachers of Greek paganism, has much to tell us about the tumultuous world of…

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

Seneca devotes most of his Naturales Quaestiones to celestial phenomena. In Book 1 he discusses fires in the atmosphere; in…

Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica, composed between the late second and mid-fourth centuries AD, boldly adapts Homeric diction…

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

The bite and wit of two of antiquity's best satirists are captured here in a new Loeb Classical Library edition, a vivid and…

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

In his history, Polybius (ca. 200'-118 BC) is centrally concerned with how and why Roman power spread. The main part of the…

Euripides (ca. 485'-406 BC) has been prized in every age for his emotional and intellectual drama. Eighteen of his ninety or…

This is the tenth volume in the Loeb Classical Library's ongoing edition of Hippocrates' invaluable texts, which provide…

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

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

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

Volume I of the Loeb Hippocrates presents an exemplary selection of works by or attributed to the '"Father of Medicine'"…

In his history, Polybius (ca. 200'-118 BC) is centrally concerned with how and why Roman power spread. The main part of the…

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