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Miscellanies (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In the Miscellanies, the great Italian Renaissance scholar-poet Angelo Poliziano penned two sets of mini-essays focused on lexical or textual problems. He solves these with his... Læs mere
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Description of Greece, Volume II: Books 3–5 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Pausanias, one of the Roman world’s great travelers, sketches in Description of Greece the history, geography, landmarks, legends, and religious cults of all... Læs mere
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Generation of Animals (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Nearly all the works Aristotle (384–322 BC) prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). They can be categorized as practical; logical; physical; metaphysical; on art; other; fragments.
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Natural History, Volume VII: Books 24–27 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Pliny the Elder produced in his Natural History a vast compendium of Roman knowledge. Topics included are the mathematics and metrology of the universe; world... Læs mere
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Moralia, Volume XIII: Part I: Platonic Essays (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Plutarch (ca. AD 45–120) wrote on many subjects. His extant works other than the Parallel Lives are varied, about sixty in number, and known as the Moralia... Læs mere
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The Learned Banqueters, Volume III: Books 6–7 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work provides quotations from works now lost, and preserves information about wide range of information about Greek culture.
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Discourses 1–11 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Dio Chrysostom (AD ca. 40–ca. 120) was a rhetorician hostile to philosophers, whose Discourses reflect political or moral concerns. What survives of his works make him prominent in the revival of Greek literature in the late first and early second century AD.
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Discourses 61–80 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Dio Chrysostom (AD ca. 40–ca. 120) was a rhetorician hostile to philosophers, whose Discourses reflect political or moral concerns. What survives of his works make him prominent in the revival of Greek literature in the late first and early second century AD.
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Sufi Lyrics (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The poetry of Bullhe Shah, which drew upon Sufi mysticism, is considered one of the glories of premodern Panjabi literature. His lyrics, famous for their vivid style and outspoken... Læs mere
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Lives, Volume V: Agesilaus and Pompey. Pelopidas and Marcellus (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Plutarch (ca. AD 45–120) wrote on many subjects. His forty-six Parallel Lives are biographies planned to be ethical examples in pairs, one... Læs mere
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Laws, Volume II: Books 7–12 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The great Athenian philosopher Plato was born in 427 BC and lived to be eighty. Acknowledged masterpieces among his works are the Symposium, which explores love in its many... Læs mere
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The Art of Love and Other Poems: Cosmetics. Remedies for Love. Ibis. Walnut Tree. Sea Fishing. Consolation (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In the didactic poetry of Face Cosmetics, Art of Love, and Remedies for Love, Ovid (43 BC–AD 17) demonstrates abstrusity and wit. His Ibis is an elegiac curse-poem. Nux, Halieutica, and Consolatio ad Liviam are poems now judged not to be by Ovid.
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