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BASIL LETTERS VOL III by Caesarea Basil; Roy J. Deferrari
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Category: History | Series: The\Loeb Classical Library
Basil the Great was born ca. 330 CE at Caesarea in Cappadocia into a family noted for piety. He was at Constantinople and Athens for several years as a student with Gregory of Nazianzus and was much influenced by Origen. For a short time he held a chair of rhetoric at Caesarea, and was then baptized. He ...Show more
CELSUS ON MEDICINE VOL I by Celsus; W. G. Spencer (Translator)
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Category: History | Series: The\Loeb Classical Library
A. Cornelius Celsus was author, probably during the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius (14-37 CE), of a general encyclopaedia of agriculture, medicine, military arts, rhetoric, philosophy, and jurisprudence, in that order of subjects. Of all this great work there survives only the 8 books on medicine ( ...Show more
CITY OF GOD VOL IV LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY by William Chase Greene; Augustine
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Loeb Classical Library
Augustinus (354-430 CE), son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste in North Africa, and his Christian wife Monica, while studying in Africa to become a rhetorician, plunged into a turmoil of philosophical and psychological doubts in search of truth, joining for a time the Manichaean society. He became a teac ...Show more
DEMOSTHENES WORKS VOL VII by Demosthenes Witt N.W.De Witt N.J.De
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Category: History | Series: The\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
DEMOSTHENES WORKS VOL3 by Demosthenes Vince J.H.
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Category: History | Series: The\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
DEMOSTHENES WORKS VOL5 by Demosthenes Murray A.T.
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Category: History | Series: The\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
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
Dio Cassius - Roman History by Herbert B. Foster; Earnest Cary; Dio Cassius
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Category: No Category | Series: The\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
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
GEOGRAPHY VOL 5 by Horace Leonard Jones; Didier Strabo
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\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
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
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