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Moralia: v. 4 by Plutarch
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95Eclectic 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... -
Anecdota, or Secret History by Procopius
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95Late antique muckraking.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... -
Autobiography and Selected Letters: v. 2 by Libanius
Booksplease Price: £25.31Pagans' advocate.A professing pagan in an aggressively Christian empire, a friend of the emperor Julian and acquaintance of St. Basil, a potent spokesman for private and political causes-Libanius... -
Ab Urbe Condita: Bks. 1-45, v. 3 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... -
History of the Wars: v. 5: Bks.VII, xxxvi-VIII by Procopius
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95Late 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... -
City of God: v. 1: Bks.I-III by Edmund Augustine
Booksplease Price: £25.31A Church Father's theological citadel.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,... -
Works: v. 2 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... -
Description of Greece: v. 5: Maps, Illustrations & Index by Pausanias
Booksplease Price: £25.31Antiquity's original travel guide.Pausanias, born probably in Lydia in Asia Minor, was a Greek of the second century AD, about 120-180, who traveled widely not only in Asia Minor, Palestine,... -
Greek Mathematical Works: Selections: v. 2: From Aristarchus to Pappus by I. Thomas 9780674993990
Booksplease Price: £25.31Elemental learning.The splendid achievement of Greek mathematics is here illustrated in two volumes of selected mathematical works. Volume I (LCL 335) contains the divisions of mathematics;... -
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... -
Birds: WITH Lysistrata AND Thesmophoria by Aristophanes 9780674995871
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,... -
Ennead: Life of Plotinus by Plotinus 9780674994843
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... -
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 ... -
Frogs: WITH Assemblywoman AND Wealth by Aristophanes 9780674995963
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.63The 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,... -
Agricola by Cornelius Tacitus 9780674990395
Booksplease Price: £25.31The paramount historian of the early Roman empire. Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of... -
The Statesman by Plato 9780674991828
Booksplease Price: £25.31On politics, pleasure, and poetry.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 ... -
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... -
Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale: Captain America Jeph Loeb 9781302962036
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781302962036Author Jeph LoebFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Marvel ComicsPublisher Marvel Comics -
Fragments by Sophocles
Booksplease Price: £25.31Ancient Athens' most successful tragedian.Sophocles (497/6-406 BC), the second of the three great tragedians of Athens and by common consent one of the world's greatest poets, wrote more than 120... -
Moralia: v. 2 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... -
Ennead: Bk. 2 by Plotinus
Booksplease Price: £25.31Plotinus (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... -
The Civil War by Lucan
Booksplease Price: £25.31Epic history.Lucan (M. Annaeus Lucanus, AD 39-65), son of wealthy M. Annaeus Mela and nephew of Seneca, was born at Corduba (Cordova) in Spain and was brought as a baby to Rome. In AD 60 at a... -
Aeneid: Bks. 7-12: WITH Appendix Vergiliana by Virgil
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95"The classic of all Europe." -T. S. EliotVirgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BC near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan, and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in... -
Geography: v. 7 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,... -
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... -
Geography: v. 3 by Strabo
Booksplease Price: £25.31In his seventeen-book Geography, Strabo (c. 64 BCE c. 25 CE) discusses geographical method, stresses the value of geography, and draws attention to the physical, political, and historical details of... -
Epistulae Morales: v. 3: Letters XCIII-CXXIV by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Booksplease Price: £25.31Meditative 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... -
Correspondence: v. 1 by Marcus Cornelius Fronto
Booksplease Price: £25.31Letters of an imperial tutor.The literary remains of the rhetorician Marcus Cornelius Fronto (ca. AD 100-176) first came to light in 1815, when Cardinal Mai, then prefect of the Ambrosian Library in... -
The City of God: v. 3: Bks.VIII-XI by Edmund Augustine
Booksplease Price: £25.31A Church Father's theological citadel.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,... -
City of God: v. 4: Bks.XII-XV by Edmund Augustine
Booksplease Price: £25.31A Church Father's theological citadel.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,... -
Greek Elegiac Poetry: From the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries BC by Douglas E. Gerber
Booksplease Price: £25.31Noble verse.The Greek poetry of the archaic period that we call elegy was composed primarily for banquets and convivial gatherings. Its subject matter consists of almost any topic, excluding only the... -
Roman History: v. 8 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 ... -
History of the Wars: v. 1: Bks.I & II by Procopius
Booksplease Price: £25.03Late 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... -
Descriptions by Callistratus
Booksplease Price: £25.31Artful descriptions.This volume presents kindred works important for evidence relating to late Greek art. They are attributed to two men each known as Philostratus and to a third man called... -
Natural History: v. 6: Bks.XX-XXIII 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 ... -
Cyclops by Euripides
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... -
The Laws: Bks. I-VI 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... -
Valerius Maximus: Memorable Doings and Sayings: v. 1 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... -
Moralia: v. 14: Index 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...