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The major works by Josephus are History of the Jewish War, from 170 BC to his own time, and Jewish Antiquities, from creation to AD 66. Also by him are an autobiographical Life and a treatise Against Apion.
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The main aim of Roman Antiquities was to reconcile Greeks to Roman rule. Of the twenty books (from the earliest times to 264 BC) we have the first nine complete; most of 10 and 11; extracts; and an epitome of the whole.
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Antiphon disliked democracy and was an ardent oligarch. Of his fifteen extant works three concern real murder cases. The others are academic exercises. Andocides disliked the extremes of democracy and oligarchy. Of his four extant speeches Against Alcibiades is doubtful.
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Greek papyri relating to private and public business in Egypt from before 300 BC to the eighth century AD inform us about administration; social and economic conditions in Egypt; Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine law. They also offer glimpses of ordinary life.
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We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other... Læs mere
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In Fishing, Oppian discusses fish and gives angling instructions. The Chase, on hunting, may be the work of a Syrian imitator. Colluthus and Tryphiodorus (properly Triphiodorus), epic poets of Egypt, wrote in the second half of the fifth century AD.
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Basil the Great was born into a family noted for piety. About 360 he founded a convent in Pontus and in 370 succeeded Eusebius in the archbishopric of Caesarea. His reform of monastic life in the east is the basis of modern Greek and Slavonic monasteries.
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The surviving works of the Roman Emperor Julian “the Apostate” (331 or 332–363 CE) include eight Orations; Misopogon (Beard-hater),... Læs mere
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Of the roughly seventy treatises in the Hippocratic Collection, many are not by Hippocrates (said to have been born on Cos in or... Læs mere
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Claudian displays poetic as well as rhetorical skill in his diverse set of works. A panegyric on the brothers Probinus and Olybrius was followed mostly by epics in hexameters, but also by elegiacs, epistles, epigrams, and idylls.
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The surviving works of Ausonius (ca. AD 310–c. 395) include much poetry, notably “The Daily Round” and “The Moselle.” In Volume II, there is... Læs mere
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Quintilian, born in Spain about AD 35, became a renowned and successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. In The Orator’s Education (Institutio Oratoria), a... Læs mere