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ART OF LOVE by J. H. Mozley; Ovid; G. P. Goold
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Category: History | Series: Loeb Classical Library
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 his Ars Amatoria, and was banished because of this work ...Show more
Aeschylus: v. II: Oresteia: Agamemmon, Libation-Bearers, Eumenides by Aeschylus
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought | Series: Loeb Classical Library
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 Dionysia thirteen times between ca. 499 and 458, and in his later y ...Show more
Birds: WITH Lysistrata AND Thesmophoria by Aristophanes
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Aristophanes (ca. 446386 BCE), one of the world's greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and political life of Athens at its height. In this third volume of a new Loeb ...Show more
Greek Elegiac Poetry by Douglas E. Gerber (Edited and Translated by); Mimnermus; Solon
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Category: Classics | Series: Loeb Classical Library
The Greek poetry of the archaic period that we call elegy was composed primarily for banquets and convivial gatherings. Its subject matter consists of almost any topic, excluding only the scurrilous and obscene. Douglas Gerber provides a translation of the fragments and significant testimonia that have ...Show more
History of Egypt and Other Works by Ptolemy
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Eight works or parts of works were ascribed to Manetho, a third century BCE Egyptian, all on history and religion and all apparently in Greek. They survive only as quoted by other writers and include the spurious Book of Sothis. The Kings of Thebes (in Egypt) and the Old Chronicle are doubtful.
History of Rome - Ab Urbe Condita Volume 1 (Books 1-2) ~ by Livy
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Category: History | Series: Loeb Classical Library
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 the city to 9 BCE. Of its 142 books, we have just 35 ...Show more
History of Rome, Volume VIII - Books 28-30 by Livy; J. C. Yardley (Edited and Translated by)
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Category: History | Series: Loeb Classical Library
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 the city to 9 BCE. Of its 142 books, we have just 35 ...Show more
Homeric Hymns, Homeric Apocrypha, Lives of Homer by Martin L. West
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Performances of Greek epics customarily began with a hymn to a god or goddess--as Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days do. A collection of thirty-three such poems has come down to us from antiquity under the title "Hymns of Homer." This new Loeb Classical Library volume contains, in addition to the Hymn ...Show more
Loeb Classical Library - Caesar Volume 1 - The Gallic War ~ by Julius Caesar
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Category: History | Series: Loeb Classical Library
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 with Pompey and Crassus; conquered all Gaul for Rome; at ...Show more
On Temperaments. on Non-Uniform Distemperment. the Soul's Traits Depend on Bodily Temperament by Galen; Ian Johnston (Edited and Translated by)
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Category: History | Series: Loeb Classical Library *CONTINS to Info@harvardup. co. uk Ser.
Galen of Pergamum (129-?199/216), physician to the court of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was a philosopher, scientist, medical historian, theoretician, and practitioner who wrote forcefully and prolifically on an astonishing range of subjects and whose impact on later eras rivaled that of Aristotle. Gal ...Show more
On the Nature of Things - De Rerum Natura: Bks. 1-6 by Titus Lucretius Carus
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought | Series: Loeb Classical Library
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, brilliant imagination, and noble poetry, he expounds ...Show more
Poetics. Longinus - On the Sublime. Demetrius - On Style by W. Hamilton Fyfe; Longinus Longinus; Stephen Halliwell; Doreen C. Innes (Translator, Editor); W. Rhys Roberts (Translator); Aristotle; Demetrius; Longinus; Donald A. Russell
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Category: History | Series: Loeb Classical Library
This volume brings together the three most influential ancient Greek treatises on literature. Aristotle's Poetics contains his treatment of Greek tragedy: its history, nature, and conventions, with details on poetic diction. Stephen Halliwell makes this seminal work newly accessible with a reliable text ...Show more