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Plutarch: Demosthenes and Cicero
Inbunden, 2013
1826 kr
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Plutarch's Lives have been popular reading from antiquity to the present day, combining engaging biographical detail with a strong underlying moral purpose. The Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero are an unusual pair in that they are about unmilitary men who, while superb technically as orators, were …
Justin: Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus
Volume II: Books 13-15:The Successors to Alexander the Great
Häftad, 2011
899 kr
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Pompeius Trogus, a Romanized Gaul living in the age of Augustus, wrote a forty-four book universal history (The Philippic History) of the non-Roman Mediterranean world. This work was later abbreviated by M. Junianus Justinus. Alexander the Great's life has been examined in minute detail by scholars …
Plutarch: Alexander
Translated with an Introduction and Commentary
Inbunden, 2025
3805 kr
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Alexander the Great changed the world that he knew--but how he did it, and how much of his story is truth and how much is invented, is hard to tell. One of our most important sources for his achievements and personality is Plutarch's Life of Alexander, and this is the first detailed commentary in …
Aeschines: Against Timarchos
Av Aeschines, Nick Fisher
Inbunden, 2001
3602 kr
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This is the first commentary in any language on Aeschines' Against Timarchos, the prosecution speech in the politically crucial trial of 346/5BC. The case in essence was that Timarchos was legally ineligible to engage in active politics because he had engaged in improper homosexual relationships in …
Plutarch Caesar
Translated with an Introduction and Commentary
Av Christopher Pelling, Christopher Pelling
Inbunden, 2011
4181 kr
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Plutarch's Life of Caesar deals with the best known Roman of them all, Julius Caesar, and his vivid narrative covers most of the major events of the last generation of the Republic, as well as painting an insightful picture of this man who sacrificed everything for power. Pelling's volume gives a …
Justin: Epitome of The Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus: Volume I: Books 11-12: Alexander the Great
Av Justin
Inbunden, 1997
3036 kr
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Pompeius Trogus, a Romanized Gaul living in the age of Augustus, wrote a forty-four book universal history (The Philippic History) of the non-Roman, Mediterranean world. This work was later abbreviated by a certain M. Junianus Justinus, better known as Justin. This volume presents the first modern …
Justin: Epitome of The Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus: Volume I: Books 11-12: Alexander the Great
Av Justin
Häftad, 1997
1677 kr
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Pompeius Trogus, a Romanized Gaul living in the age of Augustus, wrote a forty four-book universal history (The Philippic History) of the non-Roman, Mediterranean world. This work was later abbreviated by a certain M. Junianus Justinus, better know as Justin. This volume presents the first modern …
Eusebius' Life of Constantine
Av Eusebius, Stuart Hall
Inbunden, 1999
5076 kr
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Eusebius' Life of Constantine is the most important single record of Constantine, the emperor who turned the Roman Empire from prosecuting the Church to supporting it, with huge and lasting consequences for Europe and Christianity. The only English version previously available is based on a …
Eusebius' Life of Constantine
Av Eusebius
Häftad, 1999
1863 kr
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Eusebius' Life of Constantine is the most important single record of Constantine, the emperor who turned the Roman Empire from prosecuting the Church to supporting it, with huge and lasting consequences for Europe and Christianity. The only English version previously available is based on a …
Valerius Maximus' Memorable Deeds and Sayings Book 1
Inbunden, 1998
2304 kr
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Valerius Maximus stands alone as an extant prose author of the early principate who devoted specific interest to the Romans' attitude to religion. In eight chapters he presents a variety of material selected from earlier authors, such as Cicero, Livy, and Varro, to illustrate central areas of Roman …
Didymos: On Demosthenes
Inbunden, 2006
1514 kr
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This edition of the papyrus containing Didymos' comments on some of Demosthenes' speeches aims to provide the student with a new reading of the text, a facing translation that is carefully edited for those who cannot use the Greek to show what is extant and what is restored, and a detailed …
Tacitus: Germania
Av Tacitus
Inbunden, 1999
5284 kr
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The Germania of Tacitus is the most extensive account of the ancient Germans written during the Roman period, but has been relatively neglected in the scholarship of the English-speaking world: the last commentary appeared in 1938, and only a handful of studies have appeared since that time. In …
The Elder Pliny on the Human Animal
Natural History Book 7
Av Pliny, Elder Pliny
Inbunden, 2005
1767 kr
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As a detailed study of the human animal, described by its author as the raison d'etre of nature, Book Seven of the elder Pliny's Natural History is crucial to the understanding of the work as a whole. In addition, however, it provides a valuable insight into the extraordinary complex of ideas and …
Quintus Cicero: A Brief Handbook on Canvassing for Office (Commentariolum Petitionis)
Inbunden, 2018
2163 kr
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Rome's annual elections were central to the relationship between its citizenry and political leadership, and canvassing for office played no small part in their outcomes. The Brief Handbook on Canvassing for Office (Commentariolum Petitionis), composed by Quintus Cicero for his elder brother, the …
The Histories: Volume 1 (Books i-ii)
Häftad, 1992
1556 kr
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Sallust (86-35 BC) was a historian of major importance, writing at the time of the late Roman Republic. This is the first ever full-length commentary and English translation of one of his major works, the Histories, covering the years 78-67 BC, one of the least well-documented periods of the era. …
The Histories: Volume 2 (Books iii-v)
Av Sallust
Inbunden, 1994
2599 kr
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The period covered by Sallust's Histories - 78-67 BC - forms part of the less well-documented eras of the late Republic. Sallust's contribution, despite its fragmentary transmission (about five hundred fragments of narrative, four speeches, and two letters preserved intact), remains of major …
Androtion and the Atthis
The Fragments Translated with Introduction and Commentary
Häftad, 2001
755 kr
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Atthis was the name given to the local history of Attica. This genre of historiography was invented in the fifth century by Hellanikos of Lesbos. Written in chronicle form, based upon kings and archons, it covered all aspects of Attic affairs from their mythical beginnings to the contemporary …
Cassius Dio: Roman History
Books 57 and 58 (The Reign of Tiberius)
Av C. T. Mallan
Inbunden, 2020
2605 kr
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This volume provides a new translation of Books 57 and 58 of Cassius Dio's Roman History and the 'fragments' of these books preserved in later Byzantine epitomes, as well as the first English language commentary to examine them in their entirety. Dio's Roman History covers almost 1,000 years from …
Lycurgus: Against Leocrates
Inbunden, 2019
2599 kr
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This volume provides readers with a new translation and up to date historical and rhetorical commentary on the only extant speech of the Athenian leader Lycurgus (390s/380s-324 BCE), one of Athens' most influential statesman and orators. His prosecutorial speech, Against Leocrates, delivered in 330 …
Xenophon: Poroi (Revenue-Sources)
Inbunden, 2019
2547 kr
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This volume showcases for the first time in the Clarendon Ancient History Series one of the best-known prose authors of classical Athens: Xenophon. Poroi (or, Revenue-Sources) was the final work of his large and varied output, written in the mid-350s BCE at a time when Athens had failed to prevent …
Lucian: Alexander Or The False Prophet
Inbunden, 2021
2521 kr
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Lucian's Alexander Or The False Prophet is a satiric biography of the religious entrepreneur and career fraudster Alexander of Abonouteichos. It recounts how, during the reign of Antoninus Pius (AD 138-161), Alexander succeeded in setting up a fraudulent new oracular cult of the snake-god Glykon in …
Suetonius: Life of Julius Caesar
Translated with Introduction and Historical Commentary
Av D. Wardle
Inbunden, 2025
2897 kr
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Suetonius' Life of Julius Caesar (Vita Divi Iuli in the original Latin) deals with one of the best known of all Romans. His highly colourful account of Caesar's life begins a series of twelve Lives of Rome's first emperors (Caesars) and describes how Caesar was the gods' means of ending the Roman …
Tacitus: Germania
Häftad, 1999
1155 kr
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The Germania of Tacitus is the most extensive account of the ancient Germans written during the Roman period, but has been relatively neglected in the scholarship of the English-speaking world: the last commentary appeared in 1938, and only a handful of studies have appeared since that time. In …
Cicero: Pro Rabirio Postumo
Häftad, 2001
978 kr
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Cicero's speech delivered in the mid 50s BC in defence of Gaius Rabirius Postumus was the last of a series of trials which followed the restoration of the Egyptian king, Ptolemy XII Auletes, to his throne. This had been secured through the services of a Roman army which had acted on the promise of …
Aeschines: Against Timarchos
Av Aeschines
Häftad, 2001
1773 kr
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This is the first commentary in any language on Aeschines' Against Timarchos, the prosecution speech in the politically crucial trial of 346/5BC. The case in essence was that Timarchos was legally ineligible to engage in active politics because he had engaged in improper homosexual relationships in …
The Elder Pliny on the Human Animal
Natural History Book 7
Av Mary Beagon
Häftad, 2005
1092 kr
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As a detailed study of the human animal, described by its author as the raison d'etre of nature, Book Seven of the elder Pliny's Natural History is crucial to the understanding of the work as a whole. In addition, however, it provides valuable insight into the extraordinary complex of ideas and …
Justin: Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus: Volume II: Books 13-15
The Successors to Alexander the Great
Inbunden, 2011
2894 kr
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Pompeius Trogus, a Romanized Gaul living in the age of Augustus, wrote a forty-four book universal history (The Philippic History) of the non-Roman Mediterranean world. This work was later abbreviated by M. Junianus Justinus. Alexander the Great's life has been examined in minute detail by scholars …
Cicero: Speech on Behalf of Publius Sestius
Av Marcus Tullius Cicero, Robert A. Kaster
Häftad, 2006
1092 kr
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A new translation of, and commentary on, Cicero's defence of Publius Sestius against a charge of public violence. Pro Sestio is arguably the most important of Cicero's political speeches that survive from the nearly two decades separating the Speeches against Catiline and the Second Philippic. Its …
Cicero: Speech on Behalf of Publius Sestius
Inbunden, 2006
3684 kr
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This volume contains a new translation of, and commentary on, Cicero's defense of Publius Sestius against a charge of public violence. Pro Sestio is arguably the most important of Cicero's political speeches that survive from the nearly two decades separating the Speeches against Catiline and the …
Didymos: On Demosthenes
Av Phillip Harding, Phillip Harding
Häftad, 2006
1261 kr
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This edition of the papyrus containing Didymos' comments on some of Demosthenes' speeches aims to provide the student with a new reading of the text, a facing translation that is carefully edited for those who cannot use the Greek to show what is extant and what is restored, and a detailed …
