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Epic history. Lucan (M. Annaeus Lucanus, AD 3965), son of wealthy M. Annaeus Mela and nephew of Seneca, was born at Corduba (Cordova) in Spain and was brought as a baby to Rome. In AD 60 at a festival in Emperor Neros honor Lucan praised him in a ...

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The paramount historian of the early Roman empire. Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, w...

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Precious snippets of ancient song. This volume contains the poetic fragments of the two illustrious singers of early sixth-century Lesbos: Sappho, the most famous woman poet of antiquity, whose main theme was love; and Alcaeus, poet of wine, war, ...

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The preeminent lyric poet of ancient Greece. Of the Greek lyric poets, Pindar (ca. 518438 BC) was by far the greatest for the magnificence of his inspiration in Quintilians view; Horace judged him sure to win Apollos laurels. The esteem of the anc...

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The preeminent lyric poet of ancient Greece. Of the Greek lyric poets, Pindar (ca. 518438 BC) was by far the greatest for the magnificence of his inspiration in Quintilians view; Horace judged him sure to win Apollos laurels. The esteem of the anc...

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The paramount historian of the early Roman empire. Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, w...

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Poetry of the sky and stars. Marcus Manilius, who lived in the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, is the author of the earliest treatise on astrology we possess. His Astronomica, a Latin didactic poem in five books, begins with an account of celesti...

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A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus. Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and...

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A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus. Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and...

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A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus. Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and...

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A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus. Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and...

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A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus. Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and...

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A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus. Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and...

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A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus. Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and...

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A royal education. Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BC) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king. After the d...

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Pagans advocate. A professing pagan in an aggressively Christian empire, a friend of the emperor Julian and acquaintance of St. Basil, a potent spokesman for private and political causesLibanius can tell us much about the tumultuous world of the f...

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The classic of all Europe. T. S. Eliot Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BC 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 li...

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Correspondence of a Church Father. Aurelius Augustine (AD 354430), one of the most important figures in the development of western Christianity and philosophy, was the son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste, and his Christian wife, Monnica. While st...

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The private correspondence of Romes most prolific public figure. To his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his brother. In Cicero's Letters to Atticus we get an intimate look at his...

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Topics in Stoicism. Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunts care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial s...

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The master of Old Comedy. Aristophanes of Athens, one of the worlds greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and...

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The master of Old Comedy. Aristophanes of Athens, one of the worlds greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and...

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The master of Old Comedy. Aristophanes of Athens, one of the worlds greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and...

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The master of Old Comedy. Aristophanes of Athens, one of the worlds greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and...

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The Roman comic playwright whose every word delights. Terence brought to the Roman stage a bright comic voice and a refined sense of style. His six comediesfirst produced in the half dozen years before his premature death in 159 BCimaginatively re...

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Funny happenings. The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205184 BC, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespear...

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Funny happenings. The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205184 BC, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespear...

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The preeminent orator of ancient Athens. Demosthenes (384322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon...

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Roman biographies of foreign commanders. Cornelius Nepos was born in Cisalpine Gaul but lived in Rome and was a friend of Cicero, Atticus, and Catullus. Most of his writings, which included poems, moral examples from history, a chronological sketc...

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Examined lives. Diogenes Laertius, author of a work on Greek philosophy, lived probably in the earlier half of the third century, his ancestry and birthplace being unknown. He was an Epicurean philosopher, but his work is not philosophical. The ti...

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