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Aeneid Books 7-12 & Appendix Vergiliana (Virgil vol. 2) by Virgil
Category: Classics | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BCE near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he vent back north for a quiet life. Influenced by the group of poets there, he may have written some of the doubtful poems inclu ...Show more
Alexandrian War. African War. Spanish War by Caesar; A. G. Way (Translator)
Category: Military | Series: Loeb Classical Library
In this volume are three works concerning the campaigns engaged in by the great Roman statesman Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE), but not written by him. The Alexandrian War, which deals with troubles elsewhere also, may have been written by Aulus Hirtius (ca. 90-43 BCE, friend and military subordinate of Cae ...Show more
Civil War by Caesar; Cynthia Damon (Edited and Translated by)
Category: Military | Series: Loeb Classical Library
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 "democrat" against the senatorial government; was the real leader of the coalition with Pompey and Crassus; conquered all Gaul for Rome; attacked Brit ...Show more
Demosthenes and Cicero - Alexander and Caesar by Bernadotte Perrin; Plutarch
Category: No Category | 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
Dio Cassius - Roman History by Herbert B. Foster; Earnest Cary; Dio Cassius
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
Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid Books 1-6 (Virgil vol. 1) by Virgil
Category: Classics | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BCE near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he went back north for a quiet life. Influenced by the group of poets there, he may have written some of the doubtful poems inclu ...Show more
Eusebius Ecclesiastical History Bks 1-5 by Kirsopp Lake; Eusebius
Category: Religion | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Eusebius of Caesarea, ca. 260-340 CE, born in Palestine, was a student of the presbyter Pamphilus whom he loyally supported during Diocletian's persecution. He was himself imprisoned in Egypt, but became Bishop of Caesarea about 314. At the Council of Nicaea in 325 he sat by the emperor, led a party of ...Show more
Eusebius Ecclesiastical History Bks 6-10 by J. E. L. Oulton; Saint Bede the Venerable; Eusebius
Category: Religion | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Eusebius of Caesarea, ca. 260-340 CE, born in Palestine, was a student of the presbyter Pamphilus whom he loyally supported during Diocletian's persecution. He was himself imprisoned in Egypt, but became Bishop of Caesarea about 314. At the Council of Nicaea in 325 he sat by the emperor, led a party of ...Show more
Greek Anthology: Volume I: book 1: Christian Epigrams by W. R. Paton
Category: No Category | Series: Loeb Classical Library
The Greek Anthology contains some 4,500 short Greek poems in the sparkling and diverse genre of epigram, written by more than a hundred poets and collected over many centuries. To the original collection, called The Garland (Stephanus) by its contributing editor, Meleager of Gadara (first century BCE), ...Show more
Greek Lyric - The New School of Poetry and Anonymous Songs and Hymns by David A. Campbell (Edited and Translated by)
Category: No Category | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Towards the end of the fifth century BCE Aristophanes and the other writers of comedy used contemporary poets and musicians as targets for their jokes, making fun of their innovations in language and music. The dithyrambs of Melanippides, Cinesias, Phrynis, Timotheus, and Philoxenus are remarkable examp ...Show more
Greek Lyric, Volume I: Sappho and Alcaeus by Sappho; Alcaeus; David A. Campbell (Edited and Translated by)
Category: Classics | Series: Loeb Classical Library
This volume contains the poetic fragments of the two illustrious singers of early sixth-century Lesbos: Sappho, the most famous woman poet of antiquity, whose main theme was love; and Alcaeus, poet of wine, war, and politics, and composer of short hymns to the gods. Also included are the principal testi ...Show more
Greek Lyric, Volume II: Anacreon, Anacreontea, Choral Lyric from Olympus to Alcman by Anacreon; David A. Campbell (Edited and Translated by)
Category: Classics | Series: Loeb Classical Library
The five volumes in the Loeb Classical Library edition of Greek Lyric contain the surviving fragments of solo and choral song. This poetry was not preserved in medieval manuscripts, and few complete poems remain. Later writers quoted from the poets, but only so much as suited their needs; these quotatio ...Show more