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Laches by Plato
Booksplease Price: £25.31On 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: £25.31Roman 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: £25.03The 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: £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... -
The Orator's Education: v. 4, Bk. 9-10 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),... -
Works: v. 4 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... -
Letters to Atticus: v. 1 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Booksplease Price: £25.31The 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: £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 history... -
Works: v. 1 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... -
Cyropaedia: Bks. 5-8 by Xenophon
Booksplease Price: £25.03A 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: £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... -
Against the Professors by Empiricus Sextus
Booksplease Price: £25.31A 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: £25.31Belles 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: £25.03Topics 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: £25.31The 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: £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... -
Aristotle by Aristotle
Booksplease Price: £25.31Peripatetic 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: £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 ... -
Enquiry into Plants: v. 1: Bks. I-V 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 turn... -
Works: v.12: Jewish Antiquities, Bks.XVIII-XIX 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... -
Barlaam and Ioasaph by St.John Damascene, 9780674990388
Booksplease Price: £25.31A 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: £25.68The 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: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95The 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... -
Physics: Bks. 1-4 by Aristotle 9780674992511
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95Natural causes.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 taught there... -
Timaeus Critias Cleitophon Menexenus Epistles: v. 9 by Plato 9780674992573
Booksplease Price: £25.31On 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: £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... -
Pro Caelio by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9780674994928
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95Three 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... -
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... -
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... -
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,... -
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... -
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: £25.31Late 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... -
Geography: v. 1 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, various... -
Works: v. 3 by Isocrates
Booksplease Price: £25.31The 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,...