Horace
The Latin poet Horace is, along with his friend Virgil, the most celebrated of the poets of the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and, with Virgil, the most influential. These marvelously constructed poems with their unswerving clarity of vision and their... (read more)
Paul L Mackendrick
Here, translated into modern idiom, are many works of the authors whose ideas have consitituted the mainstream of classical thought. This volume of new translations was born of necessity, to answer the needs of a course in Greek and Roman culture offered... (read more)
Andrew R. Dyck
Just as Plato drafted a vision of an ideal state in his Republic and followed that up with detailed provisions in his Laws, so Cicero -- after writing a Republic -- wanted to provide legislation for his ideal state and wrote de Legibus (the Laws) as a... (read more)
Hans Orberg
Hard cover edition of Roma Aeterna which is a course in Latin literature taught in third and fourth or fifth year high school Latin departments, or in second year college courses (Intermediate Latin) where students are introduced to their first Latin... (read more)
Z Philip Ambrose
The Focus Classical Library is dedicated to publishing the best Classical literature in contemporary translations with notes and introductions, so as to provide modern students access to the thought and context at the roots of contemporary culture. This... (read more)