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HISTORIES VOL 3 by Polybius; W. R. Paton (Translator)
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'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
JOSEPHUS VOL 6 by Flavius Josephus; Ralph Marcus; H. St. J. Thackeray
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Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about 37 CE. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in Rome the cause of some Jewish priests he returned to Jerusalem and in 66 tried to prevent revolt again ...Show more
JUVENAL AND PERSIUS by G. P. Goold; G. G. Ramsay (Translator)
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THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITION Juvenal, Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (ca. AD 60140), master of satirical hexameter poetry, was born at Aquinum. He used his powers in the composition first of scathing satires on Roman life, with special reference to ineptitude in poetry (Satire 1); vices o ...Show more
MORALIA V3 by Plutarch; Frank Cole Babbitt
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Category: History | Series: The\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
PLUTARCH LIVES VOL IX by Bernadotte Perrin; Plutarch
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\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
POLYBIUS VOL V by Polybius
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'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
PROCOPIUS VOL 1 by H. B. Dewing (Translator); Procopius; H. B. Dewing Jr.
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Procopius, born at Caesarea in Palestine late in the 5th century, became a lawyer. In 527 CE he was made legal adviser and secretary of Belisarius, commander against the Persians, and went with Belisarius again in 533 against the Vandals and in 535 against the Ostrogoths. Sometime after 540 he returned ...Show more
SENECA THE ELDER VOL 11 by Seneca; Michael Winterbottom
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Roman secondary education aimed principally at training future lawyers and politicians. Under the late Republic and the Empire, the main instrument was an import from Greece: declamation, the making of practice speeches on imaginary subjects. There were two types of such speeches: controversiae on law-c ...Show more
SENECA VOL IX by Seneca; John G. Fitch (Edited and Translated by)
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Seneca is a figure of first importance in both Roman politics and literature: a leading adviser to Nero who attempted to restrain the emperor's megalomania; a prolific moral philosopher; and the author of verse tragedies that strongly influenced Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists. This volume ...Show more
SEXTUS EMPIRICUS VOL 2 by Sextus Empiricus; R. G. Bury
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Category: History | Series: The\Loeb Classical Library
Sextus Empiricus (ca. 160-210 CE), exponent of scepticism and critic of the Dogmatists, was a Greek physician and philosopher, pupil and successor of the medical sceptic Herodotus (not the historian) of Tarsus. He probably lived for years in Rome and possibly also in Alexandria and Athens. His three sur ...Show more
SEXTUS EMPIRICUS VOL 3 by Sextus Empiricus; R. G. Bury
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Sextus Empiricus (ca. 160-210 CE), exponent of scepticism and critic of the Dogmatists, was a Greek physician and philosopher, pupil and successor of the medical sceptic Herodotus (not the historian) of Tarsus. He probably lived for years in Rome and possibly also in Alexandria and Athens. His three sur ...Show more
STATIUS VOL 2 by Publius Papinius Statius; D. R. Shackleton Bailey (Edited and Translated by)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Loeb Classical Library
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 Thebes is his masterpiece, a stirring exploration of the passions of civil war. The extant portion of his unfinished Achilleid is strikingly differ ...Show more