The Nature of the Gods
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‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy’
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The Twelve Caesars
As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eye-witness accounts) to produce one of the most colorful biographical works in …
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Discourses and Selected Writings
Epictetus, a Greek Stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicopolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were …
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The Golden Ass
An enchanting story that has inspired generations of writers, including Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Cervantes and Keats
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The Consolation of Philosophy
Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek phi…
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The Way Things Are
..". [captures] the relentless urgency of Lucretius' didacticism, his passionate conviction and proselytizing fervour.' --The Classical Review
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The Conquest of Gaul
TRANSLATED BY S. A. HANDFORD WITH REVISIONS BY JANE GARDNER
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The earliest eye-witness account of Britain and its inhabitants appears in these famous memoirs.
Between 58 and 50 BC Julius Caesar not only c… -
Alcestis
At once a vigorous translation of one of Euripides' most subtle and witty plays, and a wholly fresh interpretation, this version reveals for the first time the extraordinary formal beauty and thematic…
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The Wisdom of Life
A leading German philosopher and metaphysician of the 19th century, Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) exerted an influence far beyond the hermetic world of philosophy, with adherents ranging from Richar…
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The Histories
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the peculiar quality of Herodotus, the father of history.
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Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
Rene Descartes has often been called the father of modern philosophy, and it is certainly true that his influence has pervaded western thought at least until the present century. The "Discourse" is th…
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Hércules loco. Las troyanas. Medea. Fedra
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