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Aeneid Books 7-12 & Appendix Vergiliana (Virgil vol. 2) by Virgil
Category: Fiction | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BCE near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he vent back north for a quiet life. Influenced by the group of poets there, he may have written some of the doubtful poems inclu ...Show more
Agricola. Germania. Dialogue on Oratory by Cornelius Tacitus
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.
Alexandrian War. African War. Spanish War by Caesar; A. G. Way (Translator)
Category: Military | Series: Loeb Classical Library
In this volume are three works concerning the campaigns engaged in by the great Roman statesman Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE), but not written by him. The Alexandrian War, which deals with troubles elsewhere also, may have been written by Aulus Hirtius (ca. 90-43 BCE, friend and military subordinate of Cae ...Show more
Anabasis by Xenophon
Category: Fiction | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BCE) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king. After the defeat of Cyrus, it fell to Xenophon to lead the Greeks from the gates of Ba ...Show more
Apollonius of Tyana: v. 1, Bks. 1-4 by Philostratus
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
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,
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
Cicero - Tusculan Disputations by Marcus Tullius Cicero; J. E. King (Translator)
Category: Philosophy | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106?43 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 corres ...Show more
Civil War by Caesar; Cynthia Damon (Edited and Translated by)
Category: Military | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Caesar (C. Iulius, 102-44 BC), statesman and soldier, defied the dictator Sulla; served in the Mithridatic wars and in Spain; entered 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; attacked Brit ...Show more
Compendium of Roman History. Res Gestae Divi Augusti by Velleius Velleius Paterculus; Frederick W. Shipley (Translator)
Category: History | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Velleius Paterculus, who lived in the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius (30 BCE-37 CE), served as a military tribune in Thrace, Macedonia, Greece and Asia Minor, and later, from 4 CE to 12 or 13, as a cavalry officer and legatus in Germany and Pannonia. He was quaestor in 7 CE, praetor in 15. He wrote in ...Show more
Description of Greece, Volume I: Books 1-2 by Pausanias
Category: History | Series: The\Loeb Classical Library
Pausanias, born probably in Lydia in Asia Minor, was a Greek of the 2nd century CE, about 120-180, who travelled widely not only in Asia Minor, Palestine, Egypt and North Africa, but also in Greece and in Italy, including Rome. He left a description of Greece in ten books, which is like a topographical ...Show more
Diseases of Women 1-2 by Hippocrates; Paul Potter (Edited and Translated by)
Category: History | Series: Loeb Classical Library
This is the eleventh and final volume in the Loeb Classical Library's complete edition of Hippocrates' invaluable texts, which provide essential information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body. Here, Paul Potter presents the Greek text with faci ...Show more