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Moralia: v. 6 by Plutarch 9780674993716
Booksplease Price: £25.31Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming... -
Moralia: v.13 by Plutarch
Booksplease Price: £25.31Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming... -
De Re Rustica: v. 3: Bks.X-XII by Columella
Booksplease Price: £25.31A Roman farmer on farming.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... -
De Re Rustica: v. 1: Bks.I-IV by Columella 9780674993983
Booksplease Price: £25.31A Roman farmer on farming.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... -
Histories: Bk. III-IV by Herodotus
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95The "Father of History."Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BC, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He traveled widely in most of Asia... -
Moralia: v. 3 by Plutarch 9780674992702
Booksplease Price: £25.31Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming... -
De Oratore: v. 1 by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9780674993839
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95The philosopher-statesman on ethics and rhetoric.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, ... -
Discourses: v. 2: Bks.III-IV by Epictetus
Booksplease Price: £25.31From slave to sage.Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (AD 54-68) who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. Expelled with other philosophers by... -
Enquiry into Plants: v. 1: Bks. I-V by Theophrastus
Booksplease Price: £25.31The first fruits of Greek botany.Theophrastus of Eresus in Lesbos, born about 370 BC, is the author of the most important botanical works that have survived from classical antiquity. He was in turn... -
Roman History: v. 4 by Cassius Cocceianus Dio 9780674990739
Booksplease Price: £25.31A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus.Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150-235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of... -
History of the Wars: Bk. 3 & 4, v. 2: The Vandalic War by Procopius
Booksplease Price: £25.31Late antique military operations.Procopius, born at Caesarea in Palestine late in the fifth century, became a lawyer. In AD 527 he was made legal adviser and secretary of Belisarius, commander... -
Astronomica by Marcus Manilius
Booksplease Price: £25.31Poetry of the sky and stars.Marcus Manilius, who lived in the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, is the author of the earliest treatise on astrology we possess. His Astronomica, a Latin didactic poem... -
On Buildings by Procopius 9780674993785
Booksplease Price: £25.31Late antique architecture.Procopius, born at Caesarea in Palestine late in the fifth century, became a lawyer. In AD 527 he was made legal adviser and secretary of Belisarius, commander against... -
Moral Essays: v. 2 by Lucius Annaeus Seneca 9780674992801
Booksplease Price: £25.31Topics in Stoicism.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in... -
Roman History: Bk. 56-60, v. 7 by Cassius Cocceianus Dio 9780674991934
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus.Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150-235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of... -
History of the Wars: v. 1: Bks.I & II by Procopius
Booksplease Price: £25.31Late antique military operations.Procopius, born at Caesarea in Palestine late in the fifth century, became a lawyer. In AD 527 he was made legal adviser and secretary of Belisarius, commander... -
De Rerum Natura: Bks. 1-6 by Titus Lucretius Carus 9780674992009
Booksplease Price: £25.68Atomic atheism in verse. Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) lived ca. 99-ca. 55 BC, but the details of his career are unknown. He is the author of the great didactic poem in hexameters, De Rerum... -
Posterior Analytics: v. 2: Topica by Aristotle 9780674994300
Booksplease Price: £25.68The philosopher's toolkit.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and ... -
Plato's Second Republic: An Essay on the Laws by Andre Laks
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.73An argument for why Plato's Laws can be considered his most important political dialogueIn Plato's Second Republic, Andre Laks argues that the Laws, Plato's last and longest dialogue, is also his... -
Homeric Hymns: WITH Homeric Apocrypha AND Lives of Homer by Homer 9780674996069
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95Invocations, curiosities, and biographies connected with the famous Greek bard.Performances of Greek epics customarily began with a hymn to a god or goddess-as Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days do... -
Plato: Republic 1–2.368c4 by Chris Emlyn-Jones 9780856687570
Booksplease Price: £31.43Republic, Plato's best known and most frequently read dialogue, although receiving a flood of translations and philosophical analysis over the last 100 years, has in recent times been quite short of... -
On the Nature of Things by Lucretius 9780872205871
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.30Martin Ferguson Smith's work on Lucretius is both well known and highly regarded. However, his 1969 translation of De Rerum Natura--long out of print--is virtually unknown. Readers will share our... -
Charmides by Plato 9780674992214
Booksplease Price: £25.31Mostly doubtful dialogues.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove ... -
Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works by Diane J. Rayor
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £12.88Sappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos. Of what survives from the approximately nine papyrus scrolls collected in antiquity, all... -
Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by Gideon Nisbet
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.53Lush Diodorus sets the lads on fire, But now another has him in his net - Timarion, the boy with wanton eyes . . . Meleager, AP 12.109 Encompassing four thousand short poems and more, the... -
The Histories: v. V by Polybius
Booksplease Price: £25.31Hellenistic history.The historian Polybius (ca. 200-118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many...