A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider…

\nIn the wake of national tragedies, it matters who is mourned and who is overlooked. Focusing on Protestant sermons,…

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

\nBranko Milanovic charts 200 years of the fascinating history of the discourse on inequality through portraits of six key…

Confessions is a spiritual autobiography of Augustine's early life, family, associations, and explorations of alternative…

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…

Vol. 2 unrevised ed., originally published 1927.…

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

Volume IV of the four-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy presents fifth-century reflections on language,…

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

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

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

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

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

In letters to his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other, except perhaps his brother. These letters, in…

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

In Moral Essays, Seneca (c. 4 65 CE) expresses his Stoic philosophy on providence, steadfastness, anger, forgiveness,…

Works such as those of the mime-writer Publilius Syrus, who flourished c. 45 BCE, and Rutilius Namatianus, who gave a…

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

Plotinus (204/5 270 CE) was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited by his disciple…

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…

Volume IX of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the so-called sophists Antiphon, Lycophron, and…

Seneca (c. 4 65 CE) devotes most of Naturales Quaestiones to celestial phenomena. In Book 1 he discusses fires in the…

Letters of Augustine (354 430CE) are important for the study of ecclesiastical history and Augustine s relations with other…

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

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

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

Works in this volume recount the circumstances of Socrates' trial and execution in 399 BC. Euthyphro attempts to define…

Volume VII of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the atomists Leucippus and Democritus.…

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

This volume, the tenth of Hippocrates' invaluable texts on the practice of medicine in antiquity, provides essential…

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

Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106 43 BCE), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we know more than…

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The writings of the Apostolic Fathers (first and second centuries AD) give a rich and diverse picture of Christian life and…

Unlike his predecessors, Epictetus (c. 50 120 CE), who grew up as a slave, taught Stoicism not for the select few but for…

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

Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), philosopher-emperor, wrote the Meditations (his title was "The matters addressed to himself")…

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

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

\nAëtius’ Placita (ca. AD 100) is a reconstructed compendium summarizing the principal doctrines and opinions of the…

Based on the critical edition of Malcovati, this three-volume Loeb edition of Roman Republican oratory begins with Ap.…

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

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

This volume of Greek epic fragments is accompanied by helpful notes and and introduction that places the epics in historical…