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Four unconnected but unforgettable plays from ancient Athens first great tragedian. Aeschylus (ca. 525456 BC), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the worlds great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens, fought ag...

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The tragic cycle of justice. Aeschylus (ca. 525456 BC), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the worlds great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens, fought against the Persians at Marathon and probably also at Sal...

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Tantalizing quotations from lost tragedies. Aeschylus (ca. 525456 BC), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the worlds great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens, fought against the Persians at Marathon and proba...

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The Greek epic account of the quest for the golden fleece. Apollonius Rhodius Argonautica, composed in the 3rd century BC, is the epic retelling of Jasons quest for the golden fleece. Along with his contemporaries Callimachus and Theocritus, Apoll...

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Invectives against Antony. Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 10643 BC), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we know more than we do of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and dea...

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A miscellany of learned literature from Alexandria and beyond. This volume presents a selection of Hellenistic prose and poetry, ranging chronologically from Philitas of Cos through Alexander of Aetolia and Hermesianax of Colophon to Euphorion of ...

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Hellenistic history. The historian Polybius (ca. 200118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favoring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 h...

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Hellenistic history. The historian Polybius (ca. 200118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favoring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 h...

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The Platonic ideal of government. Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitioners, was born to a prosperous and politically active family ca. 427 BC. In...

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Antiquitys most prolific and influential medical writer and practitioner. Galen of Pergamum (129?199/216), physician to the court of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was a philosopher, scientist, and medical historian, a theoretician and practitioner,...

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Peripatetic potpourri. Aristotle of Stagirus (384322 BC), the great Greek philosopher, researcher, logician, and scholar, studied with Plato at Athens and taught in the Academy (367347). Subsequently he spent three years in Asia Minor at the court...

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An antiquarians festival. The Saturnalia, Macrobius encyclopedic celebration of Roman culture written in the early fifth century AD, has been prized since the Renaissance as a treasure trove of otherwise unattested lore. Cast in the form of a dial...

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An antiquarians festival. The Saturnalia, Macrobius encyclopedic celebration of Roman culture written in the early fifth century AD, has been prized since the Renaissance as a treasure trove of otherwise unattested lore. Cast in the form of a dial...

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Scholars at dinner. In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century AD) is amusing reading and of ex...

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Funny happenings. The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205184 BC, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespear...

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Antiquitys most prolific and influential medical writer and practitioner. Galen of Pergamum (129?199/216), physician to the court of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was a philosopher, scientist, and medical historian, a theoretician and practitioner,...

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Funny happenings. The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205184 BC, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespear...

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The definitive English edition of the Father of Medicine. This is the tenth volume in the Loeb Classical Librarys ongoing edition of Hippocrates invaluable texts, which provide essential information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and ...

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