Seneca the Elder (?55 BCE 40 CE) collected ten books devoted to controversiae (some only preserved in excerpt) and at least…

In 124 epistles Seneca (c. 4-65 CE) writes to Lucilius, occasionally about technical problems of philosophy, but more often…

Describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature.…

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

Aurelius Augustine (354-430 CE), one of the most important figures in the development of western Christianity and…

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

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Volume I of the four-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy presents an introduction, preliminary chapters on ancient…

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

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

In the melancholy elegies of the Tristia and the Ex Ponto, Ovid (43 BCE 17 CE) writes as from exile in Tomis on the Black…

Volume II of the four-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy presents western Greek thinkers from the Pythagoreans to…

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

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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 his…

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A translation of De Civitate Dei.…

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

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

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…

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

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

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

The major works of Josephus (c. 37 after 97 CE) are History of the Jewish War, from 170 BCE to his own time, and Jewish…

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…

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

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A new edition of The Orator's Education.…

Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of…

Statius's Silvae, thirty-two occasional poems, were written probably between 89 and 96 CE. The verse is light in touch, with…

Of the Greek lyric poets, Pindar (c.519-438 BC) was "by far the greatest for the magnificence of his inspiration" in…

This eleventh and final volume in the Loeb Classical Library's complete edition of Hippocrates' invaluable texts contains…

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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…

Features two novels - Daphnis and Chloe (second or early third century CE) and Anthia and Habrocomes (first century CE). In…

Demosthenes (384 322 BCE), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a champion of Athenian…

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

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

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

Volume VI of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the later Ionian and Athenian thinkers…

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

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

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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…

\nM. 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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Cicero was a prodigious letter writer, and many of his letters have survived. Published in three volumes, Letters to Friends…

Dithyrambic poets of the new school were active from the mid-fifth to mid-fourth century BCE. Anonymous poems include…

The major works of Josephus (c. 37 after 97 CE) are History of the Jewish War, from 170 BCE to his own time, and Jewish…

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

Of more than seventy works by Varro (116 27 BCE) we have only his treatise On Agriculture and part of his On the Latin…