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Laches by Plato
Booksplease Price: $49.35On virtue in education and argumentation.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... -
Roman Antiquities: v. 1 by Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Booksplease Price: $49.35Roman history for a Greek audience.Dionysius of Halicarnassus was born before 53 BC and went to Italy before 29 BC. He taught rhetoric in Rome while studying the Latin language, collecting material... -
Works: v. 3 by Julian
Booksplease Price: $48.81The 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... -
Lives of the Caesars: v. 2 by Suetonius
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $38.90Antiquity'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... -
The Orator's Education: v. 4, Bk. 9-10 by Quintilian
Booksplease Price: $49.35A 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),... -
Works: v. 4 by Lucian
Booksplease Price: $49.35Antiquity'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... -
Letters to Atticus: v. 1 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Booksplease Price: $49.35The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure. To his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his brother. In Cicero's... -
Library of History: v. 1 by Siculus Diodorus
Booksplease Price: $49.35Remains 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 history... -
Works: v. 1 by Julian
Booksplease Price: $49.35The 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... -
Cyropaedia: Bks. 5-8 by Xenophon
Booksplease Price: $48.81A 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... -
Histories: Bk. III-IV by Herodotus
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $38.90The "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... -
Against the Professors by Empiricus Sextus
Booksplease Price: $49.35A suspicious mind.Sextus Empiricus (ca. AD 160-210), exponent of scepticism and critic of the Dogmatists, was a Greek physician and philosopher, pupil and successor of the medical sceptic... -
Poems and Letters: v. 2 by Sidonius
Booksplease Price: $49.35Belles lettres.Sidonius Apollinaris, a Gallo-Roman, was born at Lugdunum (Lyon) about AD 430. He married Papianilla, daughter of the Emperor Avitus in whose honor he recited at Rome on 1 January... -
Moral Essays: v. 3 by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Booksplease Price: $48.81Topics 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... -
Letters to Atticus: v. 4 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Booksplease Price: $49.35The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure.To his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his brother. In Cicero's... -
The Correspondence: v. 2 by Marcus Cornelius Fronto
Booksplease Price: $49.35Letters 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... -
Aristotle by Aristotle
Booksplease Price: $49.35Peripatetic works on the human body and soul.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... -
Natural History: v. 9: Bks.XXXIII-XXXV by Pliny the Elder
Booksplease Price: $49.35An 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 ... -
Enquiry into Plants: v. 1: Bks. I-V by Theophrastus
Booksplease Price: $49.35The 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... -
Works: v.12: Jewish Antiquities, Bks.XVIII-XIX by Flavius Josephus
Booksplease Price: $49.35Greco-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... -
Barlaam and Ioasaph by St.John Damascene, 9780674990388
Booksplease Price: $49.35A princely tale inspired by Christianity and Buddhism.One of the best known examples of the hagiographic novel, this is the tale of an Indian prince who becomes aware of the world's miseries and is... -
Works: v. 1 by Demosthenes 9780674992634
Booksplease Price: $50.08The 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 the... -
Tristia: Vol 6 by Ovid 9780674991675
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $38.90The poet in exile.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 poetry... -
Timaeus Critias Cleitophon Menexenus Epistles: v. 9 by Plato 9780674992573
Booksplease Price: $49.35On the creation of the world, and the destruction of Atlantis.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous... -
Lives: v. 8 by Plutarch 9780674991118
Booksplease Price: $49.35Comparative 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... -
Pro Caelio by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9780674994928
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $38.90Three postconsular speeches.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... -
Philosophical Treatises: v. 18: Tusculan Disputations by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Booksplease Price: $49.35Philosophical dialogues of a grieving 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... -
On the Characteristics of Animals: v. 1: Bks.I-IV by Aelian
Booksplease Price: $49.35Occasionally zany zoological lore.Aelian (Claudius Aelianus), a Roman born ca. AD 170 at Praeneste, was a pupil of the rhetorician Pausanias of Caesarea, and taught and practiced rhetoric. Expert in... -
Letters to Atticus: v. 2 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Booksplease Price: $49.35The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure.To his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his brother. In Cicero's... -
The Woman of Andros: WITH The Self-tormentor AND The Eunuch by Terence
Booksplease Price: $48.81The Roman comic playwright "whose every word delights."Terence brought to the Roman stage a bright comic voice and a refined sense of style. His six comedies-first produced in the half dozen years... -
Letters by Pliny the Younger
Booksplease Price: $49.35Correspondence 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: $48.81Ancient 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: $49.35The 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 ... -
Natural History: v. 5: Bks.XVII-XIX by Pliny the Elder
Booksplease Price: $49.35An 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: $48.65Booksplease Price: $38.90The 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: $49.35Syncretistic 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: $49.35Greco-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... -
Cicero: Letters to Friends: v. 3 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Booksplease Price: $50.08The 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: $49.35A 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: $48.65Booksplease Price: $38.90The "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...