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Agricola. Germania. Dialogue on Oratory by Cornelius Tacitus
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Category: History | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Tacitus (c. 55 c. 120 CE), renowned for concision and psychology, is paramount as a historian of the early Roman empire. Agricola includes Agricola s career in Britain. Germania is a description of German tribes as known to the Romans. Dialogus concerns the decline of oratory and education.
Apollonius of Tyana: v. 1, Bks. 1-4 by Philostratus
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Category: History | Series: Loeb Classical Library
This biography of a first-century CE holy man has become one of the most widely discussed literary works of later antiquity. With an engaging style, Philostratus portrays a charismatic teacher and religious reformer from Tyana in Cappadocia (modern central Turkey) who travels across the known world, fro ...Show more
Apollonius of Tyana: v. 2, Bks. 5-8 by Philostratus
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Category: History | Series: Loeb Classical Library
This biography of a first-century CE holy man has become one of the most widely discussed literary works of later antiquity. With an engaging style, Philostratus portrays a charismatic teacher and religious reformer from Tyana in Cappadocia (modern central Turkey) who travels across the known world, fro ...Show more
Barlaam and Ioasaph by St.John Damascene,
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Category: History | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Barlaam and Ioasaph, a hagiographic novel in which an Indian prince becomes aware of the world s miseries and is converted to Christianity by a monk, is a Christianized version of the legend of the Buddha. Though often attributed to John Damascene (c. 676 749 CE), it was probably translated from Georgia ...Show more
Elegies by Sextus Propertius
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Category: Essays | Series: Loeb Classical Library
The passionate and dramatic elegies of Propertius gained him a reputation as one of Rome's finest love poets. Here he portrays the exciting, uneven course of his love affair with Cynthia and tells us much about his contemporaries and the society in which he lives, while in later poems he turns to mytho ...Show more
Epigrams by D. R. Shackleton Bailey (Translator); Martial
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Category: Classics | Series: Loeb Classical Library
It was to celebrate the opening of the Roman Colosseum in 80 CE that Martial published his first book of poems, "On the Spectacles." Written with satiric wit and a talent for the memorable phrase, the poems in this collection record the broad spectacle of shows in the new arena. The great Latin epigramm ...Show more
Epigrams - Spectacles by D. R. Shackleton Bailey (Editor); Martial
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Category: Classics | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Written to celebrate the 80 CE opening of the Roman Colosseum, Martial's first book of poems, "On the Spectacles," tells of the shows in the new arena. The great Latin epigrammist's twelve subsequent books capture the spirit of Roman life in vivid detail. Fortune hunters and busybodies, orators and lawy ...Show more
Euthyphro: 1 by Plato
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Category: History | Series: Loeb Classical Library
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 after Socrates' execution is probable; that later he w ...Show more
Greek Anthology: Volume I: book 1: Christian Epigrams by W. R. Paton
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Category: No Category | Series: Loeb Classical Library
The Greek Anthology contains some 4,500 short Greek poems in the sparkling and diverse genre of epigram, written by more than a hundred poets and collected over many centuries. To the original collection, called The Garland (Stephanus) by its contributing editor, Meleager of Gadara (first century BCE), ...Show more
Loeb Classical Library - Horace - Odes and Epodes ~ by Ed & Trans by Niall Rudd
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Category: Reference | Series: Loeb Classical Library
The poetry of Horace (born 65 bc) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, Stoic and Epicurean thought. Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of the great Roman poet's Odes and Epodes, a fluid translation facing the Latin text. Horace took ...Show more
On Duties (De Officiis) CICERO by Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Category: Reference | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 10643 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. In his political speeches especially and in his corresp ...Show more
On the Nature of Things - De Rerum Natura: Bks. 1-6 by Titus Lucretius Carus
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Category: Classics | 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