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Loeb Classical Library #316: Problems, Volume I: Books 1-19 by Aristotle Publisher Comments Aristotle of Stagirus (384–322 BCE), the great Greek philosopher, researcher, logician, and scholar, studied with Plato at Athens and taught in the Academy (367–347). Subsequently he spent three years in Asia Minor at the court of his former... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover 
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Loeb Classical Library #256: Philostratus the Elder, Imagines. Philostratus the Younger, Imagines. Callistratus, Descriptions by Philostratus The Eld Publisher Comments This volume presents kindred works important for evidence relating to late Greek art. They are attributed to two men each known as Philostratus and to a third man called Callistratus, otherwise unknown. To an elder Philostratus, the Lemnian, born ca... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Loeb Classical Library: Latin Authors #72: Volume I. Gallic War by Julius Caesar Publisher Comments Caesar (C. Iulius, 102–44 BCE), statesman and soldier, defied the dictator Sulla; served in the Mithridatic wars and in Spain; pushed his way in Roman politics as a 'democrat' against the senatorial government; was the real leader of the coalition... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Loeb Classical Library #513: Fragments of Old Comedy, Volume I: Alcaeus to Diocles by Ian Storey Synopsis The era of Old Comedy (c. 485–c. 380 BCE), when theatrical comedy was created and established, is best known through the extant plays of Aristophanes. But the work of many other poets, including Cratinus and Eupolis, the other members, with... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Euripides IV: Trojan Women, Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Ion (Loeb Classical Library 10) by David Kovacs Publisher Comments One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides (ca. 485-406 BCE) has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, surprising plot twists, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. Here, in the third volume of a new edition that is receiving... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Loeb Classical Library #452: Libanius: Selected Works II by Libanius Publisher Comments Libanius (314–393 CE) was one of the last great publicists and teachers of Greek paganism. His story, as presented in his Autobiography and the Life by Eunapius, is supplemented by information from a correspondence of over 1500 items and 64 extant... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Loeb Classical Library #308: Minor Attic Orators: Volume I. Antiphon and Andocides by Antiphon Publisher Comments This is the first in a two-volume edition of Greek orators. Antiphon of Athens, born in 480 BCE, spent his prime in the great period of Athens but, disliking democracy, was himself an ardent oligarch who with others set up a violent short-lived... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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Loeb Classical Library #163: Volume III. the Merchant. the Braggart Warrior. the Haunted House. the Persian by Plautus Publisher Comments Plautus (Titus Maccius), born about 254 BCE at Sarsina in Umbria, went to Rome, engaged in work connected with the stage, lost his money in commerce, then turned to writing comedies. Twenty-one plays by Plautus have survived (one is incomplete). The... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Loeb Classical Library #01N: Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius Publisher Comments Apollonius Rhodius’s Argonautica, composed in the 3rd century BCE, is the epic retelling of Jason’s quest for the golden fleece. Along with his contemporaries Callimachus and Theocritus, Apollonius refashioned Greek poetry to meet the... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Loeb Classical Library #128: Polybius, the Histories, Volume I: Books 1-2 by Polybius Publisher Comments The historian Polybius (ca. 200–118 BCE) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favoring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he was held hostage... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.50 Short Discount Markdown - Hardcover
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The Deipnosophists Volume VII by Athenaeus Publisher Comments Athenaeus (ca. 170–ca. 230 CE), a Greek of Naucratis in Egypt, lived in Rome and wrote a historical work now lost. Of the fifteen books of his surviving Deipnosophists ('Sophists at Dinner'), the first two and parts of the third, eleventh, and... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Loeb Classical Library #516: Method of Medicine, Volume I: Books 1-4 by Galen Publisher Comments Galen of Pergamum (129–?199/216), physician to the court of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was a philosopher, scientist, and medical historian, a theoretician and practitioner, who wrote forcefully and prolifically on an astonishing range of subjects... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Dios Roman History Volume 5 L082 by Dio Cassius/cary 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 $30.95 Your price: $18.95 Short Discount Markdown - Hardcover
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Loeb Classical Library #285: Volume XX. Athenian Constitution. Eudemian Ethics. Virtues and Vices 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) List Price $24.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Loeb Classical Library #199: Aristotle, Volume XXIII: Poetics; Longinus: On the Sublime; Demetrius: On Style by Aristotle Publisher Comments This volume brings together the three most influential ancient Greek treatises on literature. Aristotle's Poetics contains his treatment of Greek tragedy: its history, naturne, and conventions, with details on poetic diction. Stephen Halliwell makes... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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In Catilinam I IV Pro Murena Volume 10 L324 by Cicero/macdonald 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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Hellenica, & Anabasis, Bks. 1-4 #1: Volume I. Hellenica, Books 1-4 by Xenophon 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) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.50 Short Discount Markdown - Hardcover
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Thucydides I: History of the Peloponnesian War, Books I and II (Loeb Classical Library 108) by Charles Forster Smith Publisher Comments Thucydides of Athens, one of the greatest of historians, was born about 471 BCE. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under the inspired leadership of Pericles. In 430, the second year of the Peloponnesian War, he caught and survived the horrible... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Loeb Classical Library #358: Discourses 31-36: Volume III by Dio Chrysostomus Publisher Comments Dio Cocceianus Chrysostomus, ca. 40–ca. 120 CE, of Prusa in Bithynia, Asia Minor, inherited with his brothers large properties and debts from his generous father Pasicrates. He became a skilled rhetorician hostile to philosophers. But in the course... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $18.95 Short Discount Markdown - Hardcover
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Loeb Classical Library #260: Volume IV. the Little Carthaginian. Pseudolus. the Rope by Plautus Publisher Comments Plautus (Titus Maccius), born about 254 BCE at Sarsina in Umbria, went to Rome, engaged in work connected with the stage, lost his money in commerce, then turned to writing comedies. Twenty-one plays by Plautus have survived (one is incomplete). The... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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