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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...
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Loeb Classical Library #504: Euripides, VII, Fragments: Aegeus-Meleager
by Euripides Publisher Comments Eighteen of the ninety or so plays composed by Euripides between 455 and 406 bcesurvive in a complete form and are included in the preceding six volumes of the Loeb Euripides. A further fifty-two tragedies and eleven satyr plays, including a few of...
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Loeb Classical Library. #500: Quintilian the Lesser Declamations: Volume I
by Quintilian And Bailey Publisher Comments "The Lesser Declamations," dating perhaps from the second century a.d. and attributed to Quintilian, might more accurately be described as emanating from "the school of Quintilian." The collection--here made available for the first time in translation...
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A Loeb Classical Library Reader
by Loeb Classical Library Publisher Comments This selection of lapidary nuggets drawn from thirty-three of antiquity's major authors includes poetry, dialogue, philosophical writing, history, descriptive reporting, satire, and fiction — giving a glimpse at the wide range of arts and sciences...
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Loeb Classical Library #361: On Agriculture: Volume I. Books 1-4
by Columella And Ash Publisher Comments Columella (Lucius Iunius Moderatus) of Gades (Cadiz) lived in the reigns of the first emperors to about AD 70. He moved early in life to Italy where he owned farms and lived near Rome. It is probable that he did military service in Syria and Cilicia and...
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Loeb Classical Library #137: Histories: Volume II. Books 3-4
by Polybius And Paton Publisher Comments Polybius (born ca. 208 BC) of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea), served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favouring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he was hostage in Rome where he became a friend of Aemilius Paulus and his...
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Library of History #2: Library of History: Volume II. Books 2.35-4.58
by Diodorus Siculus And Old Publisher Comments Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily, ca. 80-20 BCE, wrote forty books of world history, called "Library of History," in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War; history to Alexander's death (323...
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Loeb Classical Library #295: History of Rome: Volume IX. Books 31-34
by Livy And Sage Publisher Comments Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at or near Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BCE; he may have lived mostly in Rome but died at Patavium, in 12 or 17 CE. Livy's only extant work is part of his history of Rome from the foundation of...
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Loeb Classical Library #163: Volume III. the Merchant. the Braggart Warrior. the Haunted House. the Persian
by Plautus And Nixon Publisher Comments Plautus (Titus Maccius), born about 254 BC at Sarsina in Umbria, went to Rome, engaged in work connected with the stage, lost his money in commerce, then turned to writing comedies.<P> Twenty-one plays by Plautus have survived (one is incomplete...
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Roman Antiquities: Volume VI. Books 9.25-10
by Dionysius Of Halicar Publisher Comments Dionysius of Halicarnassus was born before 53 BC and went to Italy before 29 BC. He taught rhetoric in Rome while studying the Latin language, collecting material for a history of Rome, and writing. His "Roman Antiquities" began to appear in 7 BC...
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Loeb Classical Library #0005: Volume V. Stichus. Trinummus (Three Bob Day). Truculentus. the Tale of a Travelling Bag. Fragments
by Plautus Publisher Comments Plautus (Titus Maccius), born about 254 BC at Sarsina in Umbria, went to Rome, engaged in work connected with the stage, lost his money in commerce, then turned to writing comedies.<P> Twenty-one plays by Plautus have survived (one is incomplete...
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Loeb Classical Library #267: Geography: Volume VIII. Book 17 and General Index
by Strabo And Jones Publisher Comments Strabo (ca. 64 BC to ca. AD 25), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BC at Rome. He became a keen traveller who saw a large part of Italy, various near eastern regions including the Black Sea, various parts of Asia Minor...
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Moralia #10: Moralia: Volume X. Love Stories. That a Philosopher Ought to Converse Especially with Men in Power. to an Uneducated Ruler. Whe
by Plutarch And Fowler Publisher Comments Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45– 120, 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...
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Loeb Classical Library #312: Volume IV. Annals 4-6, 11-12
by Tacitus And Jackson Publisher Comments Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was quaestor in 81 or 82, a senator under the Flavian...
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Buildings VII in Seven Vol L343
by Procopius And Dewing Publisher Comments Procopius, born at Caesarea in Palestine late in the 5th century, became a lawyer. In 527 CEhe was made legal adviser and secretary of Belisarius, commander against the Persians, and went with Belisarius again in 533 against the Vandals and in 535...
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Metamorphoses (the Golden Ass): Volume II. Books 7-11 (Metamorphoses)
by Apuleius Publisher Comments In the "Metamorphoses" of ApuleiusThe Golden Ass," we have the only Latin novel which survives entire. It is truly enchanting: a delightful romance combining realism and magic.<P> The hero, Lucius, eager to experience the sensations of a bird...
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Aeneas Tacticus, Asclepiodotus, and Onasander
by Illinois Greek Club Publisher Comments Aeneas was perhaps a general, and certainly author of several didactic military works of which the sole survivor is that on defence against siege. From it we can deduce that he was a Peloponnesian of the fourth century BC who served in the Aegean and in...
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Loeb Classical Library #260: Volume IV. the Little Carthaginian. Pseudolus. the Rope
by Plautus And Nixon Publisher Comments Plautus (Titus Maccius), born about 254 BC at Sarsina in Umbria, went to Rome, engaged in work connected with the stage, lost his money in commerce, then turned to writing comedies.<P> Twenty-one plays by Plautus have survived (one is incomplete...
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Martial Epigrams Volume 1
by Martial/bailey Publisher Comments Shackleton Bailey's translation of Martial's often difficult Latin eliminates many misunderstandings in previous versions. The text is mainly that of his highly praised Teubner edition of 1990 ("greatly superior to its predecessors," R. G. M. Nisbet...
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Loeb Classical Library #385: Discourses 61-80. Fragments. Letters: Volume V
by Dio Chrysostomus Publisher Comments Dio Cocceianus Chrysostomus, AD ca. 40– ca. 120, 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...
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