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Aeneid Books 7-12 & Appendix Vergiliana (Virgil vol. 2) by Virgil
$41.95 AUD
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
Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid Books 1-6 (Virgil vol. 1) by Virgil
$62.00 AUD
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
$55.00 AUD
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
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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
Iliad: Books 13-24 by Homer
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Category: Classics | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of Homer's stirring heroic account of the Trojan war and its passions. The eloquent and dramatic epic poem captures the terrible anger of Achilles, "the best of the Achaeans," over a grave insult to his personal honor and relates its tragic result--a chain of ...Show more
Letters to Friends by D. Shackleton Bailey (Editor); D. R. Shackleton Bailey; Marcus Tullius Cicero
$49.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Cicero was a prodigious letter writer, and happily a splendid treasury of his letters has come down to us: collected and in part published not long after his death, over 800 of them were rediscovered by Petrarch and other humanists in the fourteenth century. Among classical texts this correspondence is ...Show more
Lysis. Symposium. Gorgias by Plato; W. R. M. Lamb (Translator)
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; that he left Athens for a time after Socrates' execution is probable; that later he w ...Show more
METAMORPHOSES BKS 1-8 by Frank Justus Miller; Ovid; G. P. Goold
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Category: No Category | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE-17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars Amatoria, and was banished because of this wor ...Show more
Odyssey: v.2 by Homer
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Category: Classics | Series: Loeb Classical Library
A show stopper a classic work: the edition translated by A.T. Murray that is cited in BCL3 (this revision is by by George E. Dimock). This set is in the handy, even cuddly, standard Loeb...Library format (4.5 x 6.5). The facing Greek and English text is crisply printed on soothing off-white paper,
Ovid - Metamorphoses Vol II by Frank Justus Miller; Ovid; G. P. Goold
$47.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE-17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars Amatoria, and was banished because of this wor ...Show more
Pliny - Letters and Panegyricus by Betty Radice (Translator); Pliny the Younger
$58.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Loeb Classical Library
The letters of Pliny the Younger (c. 61 c. 112 CE), a polished social document of his times, include descriptions of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE and the earliest pagan accounts of Christians. The Panegyricus is an expanded, published version of Pliny s oration of thanks to the Emperor Trajan in 10 ...Show more
Pliny Natural History by H. Rackham
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Category: History | Series: Loeb Classical Library