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Library of History, Volume II: Books 2.35–4.58 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Library of History is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander’s death (323 BC); history to 54 BC. Books 1–5 and 11–20 survive complete, the rest in fragments.
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Library of History, Volume III: Books 4.59–8 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Library of History is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander’s death (323 BC); history to 54 BC. Books 1–5 and 11–20 survive complete, the rest in fragments.
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Claudian, Volume II: On Stilicho’s Consulship 2–3. Panegyric on the Sixth Consulship of Honorius. The Gothic War. Shorter Poems. Rape of Proserpina (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
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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Julian, Volume III: Letters. Epigrams. Against the Galilaeans. Fragments (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
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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Oppian. Colluthus. Tryphiodorus (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
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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Select Papyri, Volume I: Private Documents (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
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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On the Latin Language, Volume II: Books 8–10 and Fragments (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Of more than seventy works by Varro (116–27 BC) we have only his treatise On Agriculture and part of his On the Latin Language, a work typical of its... Læs mere
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Roman Antiquities, Volume III: Books 5–6.48 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The main aim of Roman Antiquities, which began to appear in 7 BC, 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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Lucian, Volume VIII: Soloecista. Lucius or The Ass. Amores. Halcyon. Demosthenes. Podagra. Ocypus. Cyniscus. Philopatris. Charidemus. Nero (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Lucian (ca. AD 120–190), apprentice sculptor then traveling rhetorician, settled in Athens and... Læs mere
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Suppliant Women. Electra. Heracles (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Euripides (ca. 485–406 BC) has been prized in every age for his emotional and intellectual drama. Eighteen of his ninety or so plays survive complete, including Medea,... Læs mere
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The Little Carthaginian. Pseudolus. The Rope (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205–184 BC, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and... Læs mere
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Jewish Antiquities, Volume VI: Books 14–15 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
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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