
History of Animals, Volume II - Aristotle
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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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 classical and Christian worlds meet in Boethius (ca. AD 480'-524), the last writer of purely literary Latin from…
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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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Greek mathematics from the sixth century BC to the fourth century AD is represented by works of Pythagoras, Proclus, Thales,…
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The Metamorphoses (Golden Ass) of Apuleius is a romance combining realism and magic. Lucius wants the sensations of a bird,…
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Livy (Titus Livius, 64 or 59 BC'-AD 12 or 17), the great Roman historian, presents a vivid narrative of Rome''s rise from…
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Greek mathematics from the sixth century BC to the fourth century AD is represented by works of Pythagoras, Proclus, Thales,…
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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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Demosthenes (384'-322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who also became a champion of Athenian greatness…
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Oppian of Cilicia flourished in the latter half of the 2nd century, and dedicated his "Fishing" (in five books) to…
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The main aim of Roman Antiquities was to reconcile Greeks to Roman rule. Of the twenty books (from the earliest times to 264…
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Cicero was a prodigious letter writer, and happily a splendid treasury of his letters has come down to us: collected and in…
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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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Valerius Maximus compiled his handbook of notable deeds and sayings during the reign of Tiberius (14-37 CE). The collection…
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The Peloponnesian War was really three conflicts (431'-421, 415'-413, and 413'-404 BC) that Thucydides was still unifying…
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Plutarch (ca. AD 45'-120) wrote on many subjects. His forty-six Parallel Lives are biographies planned to be ethical…
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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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The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer (eighth century BC) are the two oldest European epic poems. The former tells of…
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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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The Major Declamations, attributed to Quintilian in antiquity, exemplify the final stage of Greco-Roman rhetorical training,…
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In this volume are three works concerning the campaigns engaged in by the great Roman statesman Julius Caesar (10044 BCE),…
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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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In Fasti Ovid (43 BC'-AD 17) sets forth explanations of the festivals and sacred rites that were noted on the Roman…
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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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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 BCE De Agricultura is our earliest complete Latin prose text, recommends farming for its security and…
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Extant early Latin writings from the seventh or sixth to the first century BC include epic, drama, satire, translation 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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The importance of Isocrates (436'-338 BC) for the study of Greek civilization of the fourth century BC is indisputable.…
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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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Valerius Maximus compiled his handbook of notable deeds and sayings in the reign of Tiberius (AD 14'-37). His professedly…
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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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Philostratus '"the Elder'" or '"the Athenian'" (2nd to mid-3rd c.) and Eunapius (ca. 345'-415) provide fascinating…
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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 Satyrica, traditionally attributed to the Neronian courtier Petronius, is a comic-picaresque fiction recalling the…
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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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Livy (Titus Livius, 64 or 59 BC'-AD 12 or 17), the Roman historian, presents a vivid narrative of Rome''s rise from the…
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Appian (ca. AD 95'-161) is a principal source for the history of the Roman Republic. His theme is the process by which Rome…
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The instructional treatises of Menander Rhetor and the Ars Rhetorica, deriving from the schools of rhetoric that flourished…
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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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Lucian (ca. AD 120'-190), apprentice sculptor then traveling rhetorician, settled in Athens and developed an original brand…
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Justin''s artfully condensed version of the lost Philippic History of Trogus, a contemporary of Livy, is a universal history…
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In letters to his friend Atticus, Cicero (106'-43 BC) reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps…
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