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Introducing his celebrated translations of these two poems and of the Shield, Apostolos Athanassakis positions Hesiod simultaneously as a philosopher ... More

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With careful scholarship and characteristic literary felicity, Apostolos Athanassakis, translator of "The Homeric Hymns, " here presents the ... More

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, ... More

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In his most influential work, the "Metamorphoses," Ovid (43 BCE-17 CE) weaves a hexametric whole from a huge range of myths, which are connected by ... More

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Valerius Flaccus flourished c. 70-90 BCE and composed an incomplete epic "Argonautica" in eight books, on the quest for the golden fleece. Valerius ... More

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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"), assailing ... More

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In the "Confessions" Augustine (354-430 CE) offers his great autobiography.

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Celsus, a layman, provides in "On Medicine" more information about the condition of medical science up to his own time (probably first century CE) ... More

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We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman. Besides much else, his work ... More

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Dionysius of Halicarnassus, born c. 60 BCE, aimed in his critical essays to reassert the primacy of Greek as the literary language of the ... More

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Libanius (314-393 CE), who was one of the last great publicists and teachers of Greek paganism, has much to tell us about the tumultuous world of the ... More

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Florus (second century CE) wrote, in brief pointed rhetorical style, a two-book summary of Roman history (especially military) in order to show the ... More

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We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman. Besides much else, his work ... More

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Dionysius of Halicarnassus, born c. 60 BCE, aimed in his critical essays to reassert the primacy of Greek as the literary language of the ... More

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We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman. Besides much else, his work ... More

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THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITION Juvenal, Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (ca. AD 60-140), master of satirical hexameter poetry, was born ... More

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Apollonius was a Greek grammarian and epic poet of Alexandria in Egypt and lived late in the 3rd century and early in the 2nd century BCE. While ... More

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In his most influential work, the "Metamorphoses," Ovid (43 BCE-17 CE) weaves a hexametric whole from a huge range of myths, which are connected by ... More

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Quintilian was born in Spain about A.D. 35; he became a well-known and prosperous teacher of rhetoric in Rome, probably the first to receive a salary ... More

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Libanius (314-393 CE), who was one of the last great publicists and teachers of Greek paganism, has much to tell us about the tumultuous world of the ... More

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Lucian (c. 120-190 CE), apprentice sculptor then travelling rhetorician, settled in Athens and developed an original brand of satire. Notable for the ... More

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