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Petronius by Petronius Arbiter
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Category: History | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Petronius (C. or T. Petronius Arbiter), who is reasonably identified with the author of this famous satyric and satiric novel, was a man of pleasure and of good literary taste who flourished in the times of Claudius (4154 CE) and Nero (5468). As Tacitus describes him, he used to sleep by day, and atten ...Show more
Phormio: WITH The Mother-in-law AND The Brothers by Terence
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Category: Classics | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Terence brought to the Roman stage a bright comic voice and a refined sense of style. His six comedies - first produced in the half dozen years before his premature death in 159 B.C. - imaginatively reformulated in Latin plays written by Greek playwrights, especially Menander. For this new Loeb Classica ...Show more
Plays: v. 1: "Ajax", "Electra", "Oedipus Tyrannus" by Sophocles
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Category: Essays | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Sophocles (497/6406 BCE), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the world's greatest poets. The subjects of his plays were drawn from mythology and legend. Each play contains at least one heroic figure, a character whose strength, coura ...Show more
Roman History: v. 1 by Cassius Cocceianus Dio
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Category: Reference | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), c. 150 235 CE, was born in Bithynia. Little of his Roman History survives, but missing portions are partly supplied from elsewhere and there are many excerpts. Dio s work is a vital source for the last years of the Roman republic and the first four Roman emperors.
Sophocles: v.2: "Antigone", "Women of Trachis", "Philocetes", "Oedipus at Colonus" by Sophocles
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Category: Classics | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Sophocles (497/6406 BCE), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the world's greatest poets. The subjects of his plays were drawn from mythology and legend. Each play contains at least one heroic figure, a character whose strength, coura ...Show more
Suetonius: Vol 1 by Suetonius
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Category: Reference | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. 70 CE), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, but later became the emperor Hadrian's private secretary, 119121. He dedicated to C. Septicius Clarus, prefect of the praetorian guard, his "Lives of the Caesars." After ...Show more
The Fall of Troy by Quintus Smyrnaeus
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Category: Essays | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Quintus was a poet who lived at Smyrna some four hundred years after Christ. His work, in fourteen books, is a bold and generally underrated attempt in Homer's style to complete the story of Troy from the point at which the "Iliad" closes. Quintus tells us the stories of Penthesilea, the Amazonian queen ...Show more
The Greek Anthology: v. 1 by W. R. Paton
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Category: Classics | Series: Loeb Classical Library
The Greek Anthology ('Gathering of Flowers') is the name given to a collection of about 4500 short Greek poems (called epigrams but usually not epigrammatic) by about 300 composers. To the collection (called 'Stephanus', wreath or garland) made and contributed to by Meleager of Gadara (1st century BCE) ...Show more
The War with Catiline. The War with Jugurtha by Sallust
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Category: History | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Sallust, Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86-35 BCE), a Sabine from Amiternum, acted against Cicero and Milo as tribune in 52, joined Caesar after being expelled from the Senate in 50, was restored to the Senate by Caesar and took part in his African campaign as praetor in 46, and was then appointed governor o ...Show more
The Woman of Andros: WITH The Self-tormentor AND The Eunuch by Terence
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Category: Classics | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Terence brought to the Roman stage a bright comic voice and a refined sense of style. His six comedies - first produced in the half dozen years before his premature death in 159 B.C. - imaginatively reformulated in Latin plays written by Greek playwrights, especially Menander. For this new Loeb Classica ...Show more
Works: v. 2 by Julian
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Category: Reference | Series: Loeb Classical Library
The surviving works of the Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate (331 or 332 363 CE) include eight Orations; Misopogon (Beard-hater), assailing the morals of the people of Antioch; more than eighty Letters; and fragments of Against the Galileans, written mainly to show that the Old Testament lacks evidence ...Show more