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Loeb Classical Library #255: Aristotle: The Physics, Books V-VIII by Aristotle Publisher Comments Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367–347); subsequently he spent three years... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover 
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Herodotus III: The Persian Wars, Books V-VII (Loeb Classical Library 119) by A. D. Godley Publisher Comments Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BCE, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He travelled widely in most of Asia Minor, Egypt (as far as Assuan), North Africa, Syria, the country north of the... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price: $24.00 Short Discount Markdown - Hardcover
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Loeb Classical Library #505: The Learned Banqueters: Volume IV: Books 8-10 by Athenaeus Publisher Comments In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century CE) is amusing reading and of extraordinary value as a... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Loeb Classical Library #145: Persians. Seven Against Thebes. Suppliants. Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus Publisher Comments Aeschylus (ca. 525–456 BCE), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world’s great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens and fought against the Persians at Marathon. He won the tragic prize at the City... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Volume XI. Laws, Books 7-12 (Loeb Classical Library) Publisher Comments Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; that he left Athens for a time... (read more) This Edition: SOLD OUT add to wish list |
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Loeb Classical Library #42: Volume III. Metamorphoses, Books 1-8 by Ovid Publisher Comments Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE–17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Plato VI: The Republic, Books VI-X (Loeb Classical Library 276) by Paul Shorey Publisher Comments Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; that he left Athens for a time... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Plato V: The Republic, Books 1-5 (Loeb Classical Library 237) by Paul Shorey Publisher Comments Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; that he left Athens for a time... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Loeb Classical Library #181: Lucretius: On the Nature of Things by Lucretius Publisher Comments Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) lived ca. 99–ca. 55 BCE, but the details of his career are unknown. He is the author of the great didactic poem in hexameters, De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things). In six books compounded of solid reasoning... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Loeb Classical Library #63: Volume I. Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid, Books 1-6: Revised Edition by Virgil Publisher Comments Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BCE near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he went back north for a quiet life. Influenced by the group of poets there... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Xenophon III: Anabasis (Loeb Classical Library 90) Revised Edition by Carleton L. Brown Publisher Comments Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BCE) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king. After the defeat of Cyrus, it fell... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Loeb Classical Library #386: On Invention. the Best Kind of Orator. Topics.: A. Rhetorical Treatises by Cicero Publisher Comments Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era which saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic.... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Lives Volume 6 Dion & Brutus Timoleon L098 by Plutarch/perrin Publisher Comments Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. 45–120 CE, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.50 Short Discount Markdown - Hardcover
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Loeb Classical Library #61: Casina, the Casket Comedy, Curculio, Epidicus, the Two Menaechmuses by Plautus Publisher Comments The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences c. 205–184 BCE, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and Moliè... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Roman History, IX: Books 71-80 (27 Edition) by Cassius Dio Publisher Comments Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), ca. 150– 235 CE, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and under the emperor Commodus was an advocate. He held... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Homer Iliad II: Books 13-24 (Loeb Classical Library 171) Second Edition by A. T. Murray Publisher Comments Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of Homer's stirring heroic account of the Trojan war and its passions. The eloquent and dramatic epic poem captures the terrible anger of Achilles, "the best of the Achaeans," over a grave insult to his... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Loeb Classical Library #506: Euripides: Fragments: Oedipus-Chrysippus, Other Fragments by Euripides Publisher Comments Eighteen of the ninety or so plays composed by Euripides between 455 and 406 BCE survive in a complete form and are included in the first six volumes of the Loeb Euripides. A further fifty-two tragedies and eleven satyr plays, including a few of... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Parallel Lives #7: Parallel Lives: Volume VII. Demosthenes and Cicero. Alexander and Caesar by Plutarch Publisher Comments Most popular of Plutarch's writings have always been the 46... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Volume II. Children of Heracles. Hippolytus. Andromache. Hecuba by Euripides Publisher Comments One of Athens' greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, surprising plot twists, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. Here are four of his plays in a new Loeb Classical Library edition. Hippolytus... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Seneca : Moral Essay's (32 Edition) by Lucius Annaeus Seneca Publisher Comments Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BCE, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial service. After some... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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