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Metamorphoses: Bks.1-8, v. 3 by Ovid
Booksplease Price: £25.31The poetry of change.Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC-AD 17), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to... -
Greek Lyric: v. 2: Anacreontea - Choral Lyric from Olympus to Alcman by D. A. Campbell
Booksplease Price: £25.31Precious snippets of ancient song.The five volumes in the Loeb Classical Library edition of Greek Lyric contain the surviving fragments of solo and choral song. This poetry was not preserved in... -
Geography: v. 4 by Strabo
Booksplease Price: £25.31The ecumene in prose.Strabo (ca. 64 BC to ca. AD 25), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BC at Rome. He became a keen traveler who saw a large part of Italy,... -
Lives: v. 10 by Plutarch
Booksplease Price: £25.31Comparative biographies of distinguished Greeks and Romans.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming... -
The Greek Anthology: v. 2 by W. R. Paton
Booksplease Price: £25.31A gathering of poetic blossoms.The Greek Anthology (literally, "Gathering of Flowers") is the name given to a collection of about 4500 short Greek poems (called epigrams but usually not epigrammatic)... -
Ab Urbe Condita: Bks. 8-10, v. 4 by Livy
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95Rome, from the beginning.Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at or near Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC; he may have lived mostly in Rome but died at Patavium, in AD 12 or 17. ... -
On Architecture: v. 1: Bks.I-V by Vitruvius
Booksplease Price: £25.31The Renaissance man avant la lettre.Vitruvius (Marcus V. Pollio), Roman architect and engineer, studied Greek philosophy and science and gained experience in the course of professional work. He was... -
Ennead: Bk. 3 by Plotinus
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95Plotinus (204/5-270 CE) was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited by his disciple Porphyry, who published them many years after his master's death in six sets... -
Cyropaedia: Bks. 1-4 by Xenophon
Booksplease Price: £25.31A royal education.Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BC) 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... -
The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle
Booksplease Price: £25.31Government of state and self.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... -
Cratylus by Plato
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.87On names, forms, beauty, and lies.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 ... -
Parallel Lives: v. 6: Dion and Brutus Timoleon and Aemilius Paulus by Plutarch
Booksplease Price: £25.31Comparative biographies of distinguished Greeks and Romans.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming... -
Histories: Bk. VIII-IX 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... -
Select Letters by Edmund Augustine
Booksplease Price: £25.03Correspondence of a Church Father.Aurelius Augustine (AD 354-430), one of the most important figures in the development of western Christianity and philosophy, was the son of a pagan, Patricius 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... -
Laws: Bks. VII-XII by Plato
Booksplease Price: £25.31Final thoughts on an ideal constitution.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... -
Enquiry into Plants: v. 2: Bks.VI-IX; Treatise on Odours; Concerning Weather Signs by Theophrastus
Booksplease Price: £25.03Enquiry into Plants and De Causis Plantarum by Theophrastus (c. 370 c. 285 BCE) are a counterpart to Aristotle s zoological work and the most important botanical work of antiquity now extant. In the... -
Ab Urbe Condita: Bks. 1-45, v. 1 by Livy
Booksplease Price: £25.03Rome, from the beginning.Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at or near Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC; he may have lived mostly in Rome but died at Patavium, in AD 12 or 17... -
Lyra Graeca: v. 1 by D. A. Campbell
Booksplease Price: £25.31Precious snippets of ancient song.This volume contains the poetic fragments of the two illustrious singers of early sixth-century Lesbos: Sappho, the most famous woman poet of antiquity, whose main... -
Library of History: v. 4 by Siculus Diodorus
Booksplease Price: £25.03Remains of a universal chronicle.Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80-20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical... -
The Orator's Education: v. 5, Bk. 11-12 by Quintilian
Booksplease Price: £25.31A central work in the history of rhetoric.Quintilian, born in Spain about AD 35, became a widely known and highly successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. The Orator's Education (Institutio Oratoria),... -
Lives: v. 7 by Plutarch
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95Comparative biographies of distinguished Greeks and Romans.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming... -
Ab Urbe Condita: Bks. 1-45, v. 13 by Livy
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95Rome, from the beginning.Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at or near Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC; he may have lived mostly in Rome but died at Patavium, in AD 12 or 17. ... -
Minor Works by Aristotle 9780674993389
Booksplease Price: £25.31Short treatises attributed to a great mind.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... -
Letters: v. 3: Letters CLXXXVI-CCXLVIII by St.Basil 9780674992689
Booksplease Price: £25.31Correspondence of a Cappadocian Father.Basil the Great was born ca. AD 330 at Caesarea in Cappadocia into a family noted for piety. He was at Constantinople and Athens for several years as a... -
De Senectute by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9780674991705
Booksplease Price: £25.31Three late dialogues.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw ... -
Bacchae: WITH Iphigenia at Aulis AND Rhesus by Euripidies 9780674996014
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95Three plays by ancient Greece's third great tragedian.One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, and intellectual probing of his dramatic... -
Parallel Lives: Agesilaus and Pompey, Pelopidas and Marcellus by Plutarch 9780674990975
Booksplease Price: £25.31Comparative biographies of distinguished Greeks and Romans.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming... -
Letters to Quintus, Brutus, Octavian and Letter Fragments: WITH Invectives AND Handbook of Electioneering by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9780674995994
Booksplease Price: £25.31Private correspondence and dubious disquisitions.Cicero had an affectionate relationship with his only brother, Quintus, down to the closing years of their lives. The letters from Cicero to him in... -
![Theophrastus: "Characters", "Herodas Mimes", "Sophron" and Other Mime Fragments by Theophrastus 9780674996038](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9489354/10523206/9780674996038__23546.1769409919.jpg?c=1 "Theophrastus: "Characters", "Herodas Mimes", "Sophron" and Other Mime Fragments by Theophrastus 9780674996038")
Theophrastus: "Characters", "Herodas Mimes", "Sophron" and Other Mime Fragments by Theophrastus 9780674996038
Booksplease Price: £25.31Dramatis personae.This volume collects important examples of Greek literary portraiture. The Characters of Theophrastus consists of thirty fictional sketches of men who are each dominated by a single... -
Thebaid: Bk. 8-12 by Publius Papinius Statius 9780674012097
Booksplease Price: £25.31Fraternal strife, and the young Achilles.Statius published his Thebaid in the last decade of the first century. This epic recounting the struggle between the two sons of Oedipus for the kingship of... -
Works: v. 2 by Julian
Booksplease Price: £25.31The emperor who renounced Christianity.Julian (Flavius Claudius Iulianus) "the Apostate," Roman Emperor, lived AD 331 or 332 to 363. Born and educated in Constantinople as a Christian, after a... -
The Dead Come to Life or the Fisherman: The Double Indictment: v. 3 by Lucian
Booksplease Price: £25.31Antiquity's satirist supreme.Lucian (ca. AD 120-190), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful... -
Library of History: v. 6 by Siculus Diodorus
Booksplease Price: £25.31Remains of a universal chronicle.Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80-20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical... -
Pro Archia by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Booksplease Price: £25.31Defense of a poet, and five speeches from after exile.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived ... -
Natural History: v. 8: Bks.XXVIII-XXXII by Pliny the Elder
Booksplease Price: £25.31Pliny the Elder (23 79 CE) produced in his Natural History a vast compendium of Roman knowledge. Topics included are the mathematics and metrology of the universe; world geography and ethnography;... -
Works: v. 5: Jewish Antiquities, Bks.I-III by Flavius Josephus
Booksplease Price: £25.31Greco-Roman antiquity's premier Jewish historian.Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 37. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and... -
Works: v. 1 by Decimus Magnus Ausonius
Booksplease Price: £25.31A master of the jeweled style.Ausonius (Decimus Magnus), ca. AD 310-ca. 395, a doctor's son, was born at Burdigala (Bordeaux). After a good education in grammar and rhetoric and a short period during... -
Pro Caecina, etc. by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Booksplease Price: £25.03The ascending statesman.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era... -
Moralia: v. 12 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...