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Letters by Pliny the Younger
Booksplease Price: £25.31Correspondence from a distinguished and eventful life.The Younger Pliny was born in AD 61 or 62, the son of Lucius Caecilius of Comum (Como) and the Elder Pliny's sister. He was educated at home... -
De Lingua Latina: v.1 by Marcus Terentius Varro
Booksplease Price: £25.31Ancient Roman word lore.Varro (M. Terentius), 116-27 BC, of Reate, renowned for his vast learning, was an antiquarian, historian, philologist, student of science, agriculturist, and poet. He was a... -
De Causis Plantarum: Bks. 5 & 6 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 ... -
Rhetorical Treatises: De Oratore: v. 4: Book III, De Fato by Marcus Tullius Cicero
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, ... -
Natural History: v. 5: Bks.XVII-XIX by Pliny the Elder
Booksplease Price: £25.31An unrivaled compendium of ancient Roman knowledge.Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23-79), a Roman of equestrian rank of Transpadane Gaul (N. Italy), was uncle of Pliny the letter ... -
Verrine Orations: Pt. 1, v. 7 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.78The young statesman's first major prosecution.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived ... -
Works: v. 8 by Philo
Booksplease Price: £25.31Syncretistic exegesis.The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BC to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic ... -
Works: v. 3: The Jewish War, Bks.III-IV by Flavius Josephus
Booksplease Price: £25.03Greco-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... -
Greek Iambic Poetry: From the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries BC by Douglas E. Gerber
Booksplease Price: £25.31Scurrilous verse.The poetry of the archaic period that the Greeks called iambic is characterized by scornful criticism of friend and foe and by sexual license. The purpose of these poems is unclear,... -
Cicero: Letters to Friends: v. 3 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Booksplease Price: £25.31The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other... -
Roman History: v. 1 by Cassius Cocceianus Dio
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 Cilicia)... -
Histories: Bk.I-II 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... -
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... -
Geography: v. 6 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,... -
Exhortation to the Greeks by of Alexandria,Saint Clement
Booksplease Price: £25.31A scholarly evangelist.Clement of Alexandria, famous Father of the Church, is known chiefly from his own works. He was born, perhaps at Athens, about AD 150, son of non-Christian parents; he... -
Works: v. 3 by Demosthenes
Booksplease Price: £25.31The preeminent orator of ancient Athens.Demosthenes (384-322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and ... -
Greek Lyric: v. 3: Stesichorus, Ibycus, Simonides and Others by David A. Campbell
Booksplease Price: £25.33Precious snippets of ancient song.The most important poets writing in Greek in the sixth century BC came from Sicily and southern Italy. Stesichorus was called by ancient writers "most Homeric"-a... -
De Re Rustica: v. 2: Bks.V-IX 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... -
Valerius Maximus: Memorable Doings and Sayings: v. 2 by Valerius Maximus
Booksplease Price: £25.31Exemplary wisdom from ancient Rome.Valerius Maximus compiled his handbook of notable deeds and sayings during the reign of Tiberius (AD 14-37). The collection was admired in antiquity and has... -
Works: v. 3 by Philo
Booksplease Price: £25.31Syncretistic exegesis.The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BC to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic ... -
Hellenica: Bks. 5-7 by Xenophon 9780674990999
Booksplease Price: £25.31A continuation of Thucydides.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... -
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... -
Clouds / Wasps / Peace by Aristophanes 9780674995376
Booksplease Price: £25.31The master of Old Comedy.Aristophanes of Athens, one of the world's greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language,... -
Helen: WITH Phoenician Women AND Orestes by Euripides 9780674996007
Booksplease Price: £25.31Three 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... -
![Plays: v. 1: "Ajax", "Electra", "Oedipus Tyrannus" by Sophocles 9780674995574](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/6150768/6227763/9780674995574__80498.1736044853.jpg?c=1 "Plays: v. 1: "Ajax", "Electra", "Oedipus Tyrannus" by Sophocles 9780674995574")
Plays: v. 1: "Ajax", "Electra", "Oedipus Tyrannus" by Sophocles 9780674995574
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95Ancient Athens' most successful tragedian.Sophocles (497/6-406 BC), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the world's greatest... -
Elegies by Sextus Propertius 9780674990203
Booksplease Price: £25.31Learned love poems from the early Augustan age.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... -
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... -
De Finibus by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9780674990449
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95The philosopher-statesman on Epicureanism, Stoicism, and the Old Academy.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other... -
Suetonius: Vol 1 by Suetonius 9780674995703
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95Antiquity's imperial biographer par excellence.Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. AD 70), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, but later became... -
Ab Urbe Condita: Bks. 1-45, v. 12 by Livy 9780674993662
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.78Rome, 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. ... -
Works by Cornelius Nepos 9780674995147
Booksplease Price: £25.31Roman biographies of foreign commanders.Cornelius Nepos was born in Cisalpine Gaul but lived in Rome and was a friend of Cicero, Atticus, and Catullus. Most of his writings, which included poems,... -
A Loeb Classical Library Reader by Loeb Classical Library 9780674996168
Booksplease Price: £9.52A paperback anthology of essential Greek and Latin texts with facing English translations.This selection of lapidary nuggets drawn from thirty-three of antiquity's major authors includes poetry,... -
Aliya: Home. Hope. Reality. by Ariella Bernstein 9781736201817
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736201817Author Ariella BernsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Loeb PublishingPublisher... -
Epistulae Morales: v. 1: Letters I-LXV by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Booksplease Price: £25.03Meditative missives.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... -
De Inventione; De Optimo Genere Oratorum; Topica by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Booksplease Price: £25.31Three rhetorical treatises.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 ... -
Pindar: v. 2 by Pindar
Booksplease Price: £25.31The preeminent lyric poet of ancient Greece.Of the Greek lyric poets, Pindar (ca. 518-438 BC) was "by far the greatest for the magnificence of his inspiration" in Quintilian's view; Horace judged... -
Works by Aeneas Tacticus
Booksplease Price: £25.31Three tactical treatises.Aeneas was perhaps a general, and certainly author of several didactic military works of which the sole survivor is that on defense against siege. From it we can deduce that... -
The Orator's Education: v. 1, Bk. 1-2 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),... -
Pindar: v. 1 by Pindar
Booksplease Price: £25.31The preeminent lyric poet of ancient Greece.Of the Greek lyric poets, Pindar (ca. 518-438 BC) was "by far the greatest for the magnificence of his inspiration" in Quintilian's view; Horace judged him... -
Works: v. 1 by Dio Chrysostom
Booksplease Price: £25.31The man with the golden mouth.Dio Cocceianus Chrysostomus (AD ca. 40-ca. 120), of Prusa in Bithynia, Asia Minor, inherited with his brothers large properties and debts from his generous father...