PAUSANIAS DESCRIPTION OF GREECE VOL 11 by H. A. Ormerod; W. H. S. Jones; Henry H. Pausanias
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Pausanias, born probably in Lydia in Asia Minor, was a Greek of the 2nd century CE, about 120-180, who travelled widely not only in Asia Minor, Palestine, Egypt and North Africa, but also in Greece and in Italy, including Rome. He left a description of Greece in ten books, which is like a topographical ...Show more
GEOGRAPHY VOL 3 by Strabo; Horace Leonard Jones
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Strabo (ca. 64 BCE to ca. 25 CE), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BCE at Rome. He became a keen traveller who saw a large part of Italy, various near eastern regions including the Black Sea, various parts of Asia Minor, Egypt as far as Ethiopia, and parts of Greece. He ...Show more
ROMAN HISTORY VOL 8 by Dio Cassius; Earnest Cary; Herbert B. Foster
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), ca. 150- 235 CE, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and under the emperor Commodus was an advocate. He held high offices, becoming a close friend of several emperors. ...Show more
ROMAN HISTORY VOL 7 by Earnest Cary; Dio Cassius; Herbert B. Foster
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), ca. 150- 235 CE, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and under the emperor Commodus was an advocate. He held high offices, becoming a close friend of several emperors. ...Show more
WORKS VOL 4 by Lucian; A. M. Harmon
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Lucian (ca. 120-190 CE), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful travelling lecturer, before settling in Athens and developing his original brand of satire. Late in life he fell on hard times and accept ...Show more
POLYBIUS VOL V by Polybius
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Loeb Classical Library
'no one else in our times has attempted to write a universal history'Polybius' ambitious goal was to describe how Rome conquered the Mediterranean world in less than fifty-three years. This great study of imperialism takes the reader back to Rome's first encounter with Carthage in 264 and forward to her ...Show more
ORATIONS VOL XI by Cicero; N. H. Watts (Translator)
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Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era which saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches especially and in his corres ...Show more
HISTORIES VOL 3 by Polybius; W. R. Paton (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Loeb Classical Library
'no one else in our times has attempted to write a universal history'Polybius' ambitious goal was to describe how Rome conquered the Mediterranean world in less than fifty-three years. This great study of imperialism takes the reader back to Rome's first encounter with Carthage in 264 and forward to her ...Show more
HISTORIES VOL 2 by Polybius
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Loeb Classical Library
'no one else in our times has attempted to write a universal history'Polybius' ambitious goal was to describe how Rome conquered the Mediterranean world in less than fifty-three years. This great study of imperialism takes the reader back to Rome's first encounter with Carthage in 264 and forward to her ...Show more
Claudian Volume II by Claudian; Maurice Platnauer (Trans.)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Loeb Classical Library - LCL 136
Claudius Claudianus, Latin poet of great affairs, flourished during the joint reigns (394-5 CE onwards) of the brothers Honorius (Emperor in the West) and Arcadius (in the East). Apparently a native of Greek Alexandria in Egypt, he was, to judge by his name, of Roman descent, though his first writings w ...Show more
Claudian Volume I by Claudian; Maurice Platnauer (Trans.)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Loeb Classical Library - LCL 135
Claudius Claudianus, Latin poet of great affairs, flourished during the joint reigns (394-5 CE onwards) of the brothers Honorius (Emperor in the West) and Arcadius (in the East). Apparently a native of Greek Alexandria in Egypt, he was, to judge by his name, of Roman descent, though his first writings w ...Show more
HISTORIES VOL 1 by Polybius
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Loeb Classical Library
'no one else in our times has attempted to write a universal history'Polybius' ambitious goal was to describe how Rome conquered the Mediterranean world in less than fifty-three years. This great study of imperialism takes the reader back to Rome's first encounter with Carthage in 264 and forward to her ...Show more