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The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle
Booksplease Price: $53.15Government 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: $52.40Booksplease Price: $41.90On 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 ... -
De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Booksplease Price: $53.15The ethics of a 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 that saw... -
Parallel Lives: v. 6: Dion and Brutus Timoleon and Aemilius Paulus by Plutarch
Booksplease Price: $53.15Comparative 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: $52.40Booksplease Price: $41.90The "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: $53.15Correspondence 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... -
Thebaid: Bk. 1-7 by Publius Papinius Statius
Booksplease Price: $53.15Fraternal strife.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 Thebes is his... -
History of the Wars: Bk. 3 & 4, v. 2: The Vandalic War by Procopius
Booksplease Price: $53.15Late 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: $53.15Final 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... -
Laws by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $41.90The statesman on statecraft.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... -
Enquiry into Plants: v. 2: Bks.VI-IX; Treatise on Odours; Concerning Weather Signs by Theophrastus
Booksplease Price: $53.15Enquiry 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: $53.15Rome, 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: $53.15Precious 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: $53.15Remains 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: $53.15A 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: $52.40Booksplease Price: $41.90Comparative 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... -
Anabasis of Alexander: v. 2: Bks.5-7 by Arrian 9780674992979
Booksplease Price: $53.15On the march to greatness.Arrian (Flavius Arrianus), of the period ca. AD 95-175, was a Greek historian and philosopher of Nicomedia in Bithynia. Both a Roman and an Athenian citizen, he was... -
Isocrates: v. 2 by Isocrates 9780674992528
Booksplease Price: $53.15The sophisticated schoolmaster.The importance of Isocrates for the study of Greek civilization of the fourth century BC is indisputable. From 403 to 393 he wrote speeches for Athenian law courts,... -
Letters: v. 3: Letters CLXXXVI-CCXLVIII by St.Basil 9780674992689
Booksplease Price: $53.15Correspondence 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: $53.15Three 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 ... -
Greek Mathematical Works: Selections: v. 1: From Thales to Euclid by I. Thomas 9780674993693
Booksplease Price: $53.15Elemental 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;... -
Parallel Lives: Agesilaus and Pompey, Pelopidas and Marcellus by Plutarch 9780674990975
Booksplease Price: $53.15Comparative 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: $53.15Private 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... -
On the Natural Faculties by Galen 9780674990784
Booksplease Price: $53.15Antiquity's most prolific and influential medical writer and practitioner.If the work of Hippocrates is taken as representing the foundation upon which the edifice of historical Greek medicine was... -
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Theophrastus: "Characters", "Herodas Mimes", "Sophron" and Other Mime Fragments by Theophrastus 9780674996038
Booksplease Price: $53.15Dramatis 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... -
Works: v. 9: Jewish Antiquities, Bks.XII-XIII by Flavius Josephus 9780674995772
Booksplease Price: $53.15Greco-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... -
Epistulae Morales: v. 1: Letters I-LXV by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Booksplease Price: $71.67Meditative 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: $53.15Three 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: $53.15The 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: $53.15Three 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: $53.15A 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: $53.15The 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: $53.15The 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... -
Works: v. 1 by Prudentius
Booksplease Price: $53.15Spirited verse.Prudentius (Aurelius Prudentius Clemens) was born in AD 348 probably at Caesaraugusta (Saragossa) and lived mostly in northeastern Spain, but visited Rome between 400 and 405. His... -
On Medicine: v. 3: Bks.VII-VIII by Celsus
Booksplease Price: $53.15A Roman layman's account of medicine in his time.A. Cornelius Celsus was author, probably during the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius (AD 14-37), of a general encyclopedia of agriculture, ... -
Selected Orations: v. 2 by Libanius
Booksplease Price: $53.15Pagans' advocate.Libanius (AD 314-393) was one of the last great publicists and teachers of Greek paganism. His story, as presented in his Autobiography and the Life by Eunapius, is supplemented by... -
Josephus: v. 11: Jewish Antiquities, Bks.XVI-XVII by Flavius Josephus
Booksplease Price: $53.93Greco-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... -
Library of History: Bk. IV,59-VIII, v. 3 by Siculus Diodorus
Booksplease Price: $52.56Remains 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... -
Moralia: v. 4 by Plutarch
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $41.90Eclectic 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: $52.40Booksplease Price: $41.90Late 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...