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Prudentius, Volume I: Preface. Daily Round. Divinity of Christ. Origin of Sin. Fight for Mansoul. Against Symmachus 1 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Prudentius used allegory and classical Latin verse forms in service of Christianity. His works include the... Læs mere
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Selected Orations, Volume II: Orations 2, 19-23, 30, 33, 45, 47-50 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Libanius, one of the last great publicists and teachers of Greek paganism, has much to tell us about the tumultuous world of the fourth century AD. His works include Orations, the first of which is an autobiography, and Letters.
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Memorable Doings and Sayings, Volume I: Books 1–5 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Valerius Maximus compiled his handbook of notable deeds and sayings in the reign of Tiberius (AD 14–37). His professedly practical work contains a clear moral element and is informative about first-century AD Roman attitudes toward religion and morality.
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Pride and Prejudice: An Annotated Edition (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Provides notes on literary and historical contexts, allusions, and language of Jane Austen's most popular novel "Pride and Prejudice" (1813). This title explores... Læs mere
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The War with Catiline. The War with Jugurtha (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Sallust’s two extant monographs take as their theme the moral and political decline of Rome, one on the conspiracy of Catiline and the other on the war with... Læs mere
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Early Greek Philosophy, Volume II: Beginnings and Early Ionian Thinkers, Part 1 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Volume II of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy presents preliminary chapters on ancient doxography, the cosmological and moral background, and includes the early Ionian thinkers Pherecydes, Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes.
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The Old English History of the World: An Anglo-Saxon Rewriting of Orosius (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Old English History of the World, produced around the year 900, is an anonymous translation and adaptation of Paulus... Læs mere
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Early Greek Philosophy, Volume V: Western Greek Thinkers, Part 2 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Volume V of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the western Greek thinkers Parmenides, Zeno, Melissus, Empedocles, Alcmaeon, and Hippo.
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Apologia. Florida. De Deo Socratis (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Apuleius (born ca. AD 125), one of the great stylists of Latin literature, was a prominent figure in Roman Africa best known for his picaresque novel Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass. This edition contains Apuleius’ other surviving works that are considered genuine.
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Rhetorica ad Herennium (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Rhetorica ad Herrenium was traditionally attributed to Cicero (106–43 BC), and reflects, as does Cicero’s De Inventione, Hellenistic rhetorical teaching. But most recent editors attribute it to an unknown author.
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Saturnalia, Volume I: Books 1–2 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Saturnalia has been prized since the Renaissance as a treasure trove of otherwise unattested lore.
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