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A Loeb Classical Library Reader by Loeb Classical Library 9780674996168
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.95A 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,... -
Apollonius Rhodius: Argonautica by Apollonius 9780674996304
Booksplease Price: £25.03The Greek epic account of the quest for the golden fleece.Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica, composed in the 3rd century BC, is the epic retelling of Jason's quest for the golden fleece. Along with his... -
Republic, Volume I: Books 1-5 by Plato
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95The Platonic ideal of government.Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitioners, was born to a... -
The Birth of Hedonism: The Cyrenaic Philosophers and Pleasure as a Way of Life by Kurt Lampe 9780691176383
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21According to Xenophon, Socrates tried to persuade his associate Aristippus to moderate his excessive indulgence in wine, women, and food, arguing that only hard work can bring happiness. Aristippus... -
How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life by Epictetus 9780691177717
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.99A superb new edition of Epictetus's famed handbook on Stoicism-translated by one of the world's leading authorities on Stoic philosophyBorn a slave, the Roman Stoic philosopher Epictetus (c. 55-135... -
How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership by Plutarch 9780691192116
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23Timeless advice on how to be a successful leader in any fieldThe ancient biographer and essayist Plutarch thought deeply about the leadership qualities of the eminent Greeks and Romans he profiled in... -
Dionysiaca: v.1 by Nonnus,of Panopolis 9780674993792
Booksplease Price: £25.31Epic revels.Nonnos of Panopolis in Egypt, who lived in the fifth century of our era, composed the last great epic poem of antiquity. The Dionysiaca, in forty-eight books, has for its chief theme the... -
After Callimachus: Poems by Stephanie Burt
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.46Contemporary translations and adaptations of ancient Greek poet Callimachus by noted writer and critic Stephanie BurtCallimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry. Loved and... -
Greek Mythology in Byzantine Art by Kurt Weitzmann
Booksplease Price: £55.45Kurt Weitzmann demonstrates that the postulated miniatures of the handbook that goes under the name of Apollodorus migrated into other texts, of which the commentary of Pseudo-Nonnus--attached to... -
How to Stop a Conspiracy: An Ancient Guide to Saving a Republic by Sallust 9780691212364
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78An energetic new translation of an ancient Roman masterpiece about a failed coup led by a corrupt and charismatic politicianIn 63 BC, frustrated by his failure to be elected leader of the Roman... -
How to Think about War: An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy by Thucydides
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78An accessible modern translation of essential speeches from Thucydides's History that takes readers to the heart of his profound insights on diplomacy, foreign policy, and warWhy do nations go to... -
Civil War by Caesar 9780674997035
Booksplease Price: £25.31The struggle that ended the Roman Republic.Caesar (C. Iulius, 102-44 BC), statesman and soldier, defied the dictator Sulla; served in the Mithridatic wars and in Spain; entered Roman politics as a... -
Juvenal and Persius by Juvenal
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95Mordant verse satire.The bite and wit of two of antiquity's best satirists are captured in this Loeb Classical Library edition. Persius (AD 34-62) and Juvenal (writing about sixty years later) were... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 4: 18 June 1811 to 30 April 1812 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691135656
RRP: £146.00Booksplease Price: £119.30Volume Four of this definitive edition of Thomas Jefferson's papers from the end of his presidency until his death includes 581 documents from 18 June 1811 to 30 April 1812. Between these two dates,... -
Eclogues by Virgil 9780674995833
Booksplease Price: £25.31"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 mind,... -
Laches by Rosamond Kent Sprague 9780872201347
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Rosamond Kent Sprague's translations of the Laches and Charmides are highly regarded, and relied on, for their lucidity and philosophical acuity. This edition includes notes by Sprague and an updated... -
The Lives of Eminent Philosophers: v.1 by Diogenes Laertius
Booksplease Price: £25.31Examined lives.Diogenes Laertius, author of a work on Greek philosophy, lived probably in the earlier half of the third century, his ancestry and birthplace being unknown. He was an Epicurean... -
Description of Greece: v. 3: Bks.VI-VIII, xxi 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,... -
Library of History: v. 8 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... -
The Library: v. 1 by Apollodorus 9780674991354
Booksplease Price: £25.31Antiquity's most influential mythological handbook.The Library provides in three books a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends. Written in clear and unaffected style, the... -
The Attic Nights: v. 2: Bks.VI-XIII by Aulus Gellius 9780674992207
Booksplease Price: £25.68Refined midnight oil.Aulus Gellius (ca. AD 123-170) is known almost wholly from his Noctes Atticae, "Attic Nights," so called because it was begun during the nights of an Attic winter. The work... -
The Library: v. 2 by Apollodorus 9780674991361
Booksplease Price: £25.68Antiquity's most influential mythological handbook.The Library provides in three books a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends. Written in clear and unaffected style, the ... -
Library of History: v. 7 by Siculus Diodorus 9780674994287
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... -
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... -
Library of History: v. 12 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... -
Thebaid: Bk. 8-12 by Publius Papinius Statius 9780674012097
Booksplease Price: £25.31Fraternal strife, and the young Achilles.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... -
Parallel Lives: v. 6: Dion and Brutus Timoleon and Aemilius Paulus by Plutarch
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... -
Parallel Lives: v. 4: Alcibiades and Coriolanus Lysander and Sulla by Plutarch 9780674990890
Booksplease Price: £25.68Comparative 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... -
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. 2 by Livy
Booksplease Price: £25.31Rome, 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. ... -
Republic, Volume II: Books 6-10 by Plato
Booksplease Price: £25.31The Platonic ideal of government.Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitioners, was born to a... -
Posthomerica by Quintus Smyrnaeus
Booksplease Price: £24.97A late epic bridge between Homeric masterpieces.Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica, the only long mythological epic to survive in Greek from the period between Apollonius' Argonautica (3rd century BC)... -
Lives: v. 10 by Plutarch
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... -
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... -
Lives: v. 9 by Plutarch
Booksplease Price: £25.33Comparative 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... -
Lives: v. 2 by Plutarch 9780674990531
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... -
Roman History 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... -
Moralia: v. 6 by Plutarch 9780674993716
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... -
Discourses: v. 1: Bks.I & II 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 the... -
Roman History: v. 2 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...