Dio Cassius: Roman History Books LXXI-LXXX by Dio Cassius; Earnest Cary (Translator); Herbert B. Foster; Earnest Cary
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Category: History | Series: The\Loeb Classical Library
The\Loeb Classical Library LCL 177. First published 1927. 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 h ...Show more
WORKS VOLUME 3 by Wilmer C. Wright; Julian
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Category: History | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Julian (Flavius Claudius Iulianus) "the Apostate," Roman Emperor, lived 331 or 332 to 363 CE. Born and educated in Constantinople as a Christian, after a precarious childhood he devoted himself to literature and philosophy and became a pagan, studying in various Greek cities. In 355 his cousin Emperor C ...Show more
DEMOSTHENES WORKS VOL2 by Demosthenes Vince C.A. Vince J.H.
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Category: History | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Demosthenes (384-322 BCE), 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 present resistance of Greece to the rise of Philip of Macedon to supremacy. We possess by him political speeches and law-court speeches composed ...Show more
VOL 6 by OVID
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Category: History | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE-17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars Amatoria, and was banished because of this wor ...Show more
LIVES VOL 1 by Bernadotte Perrin; Alfred Plutarch
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Category: History | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. 45-120 CE, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He was married and the father of one daug ...Show more
Description of Greece, Volume I: Books 1-2 by Pausanias
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Category: History | Series: The\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
HERODIES by Grant Showerman; Ovid; G. P. Goold
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Category: History | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE-17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars Amatoria, and was banished because of this wor ...Show more
Hypatia of Alexandria by Maria Dzielska; F. Lyra (Translator)
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Category: History | Series: Revealing Antiquity Ser.
Hypatia--brilliant mathematician, eloquent Neoplatonist, and a woman renowned for her beauty--was brutally murdered by a mob of Christians in Alexandria in 415. She has been a legend ever since. In this engrossing book, Maria Dzielska searches behind the legend to bring us the real story of Hypatia's li ...Show more
READING AND WRITING IN BABYLON by Dominique Charpin; Jane Marie Todd
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Category: History
Over 5,000 years ago, the history of humanity radically changed direction when writing was invented in Sumer, the southern part of present-day Iraq. For the next three millennia, kings, aristocrats, and slaves all made intensive use of cuneiform script to document everything from royal archives to famil ...Show more
NERO by Edward Champlin
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Category: History
The Roman emperor Nero is remembered by history as the vain and immoral monster who fiddled while Rome burned. Edward Champlin reinterprets Nero's enormities on their own terms, as the self-conscious performances of an imperial actor with a formidable grasp of Roman history and mythology and a canny sen ...Show more
BABYLON MEMPHIS PERSEPOLIS by Walter Burkert
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Category: History
At the distant beginning of Western civilization, according to European tradition, Greece stands as an insular, isolated, near-miracle of burgeoning culture. This book traverses the ancient world's three great centers of cultural exchange--Babylonian Nineveh, Egyptian Memphis, and Iranian Persepolis--to ...Show more
ATLAS OF THE YEAR 1000 by John Man
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Category: History
This dazzling book takes us on a voyage of discovery around the world at the turn of the last millennium, when for the first time the world was in essence a unity. Islam bridged Eurasia, western Europe, and North Africa. Vikings, with links to Scandinavia and Russia, had just arrived in North America. T ...Show more