Elegies

(Loeb Classical Library; 18)

The passionate and dramatic elegies of Propertius (Sextus Propertius) gained him a reputation as one of Rome’s finest love poets. Here he portrays the exciting, uneven course of his love affair with Cynthia and tells us much about his contemporaries and the society in ...

On the natural faculties

(Loeb Classical Library; 71)

If the work of Hippocrates is taken as representing the foundation upon which the edifice of historical Greek medicine was reared, then the work of Galen, who lived some six hundred years later, may be looked upon as the summit of the same edifice. He ...

Prognostic. Regimen in Acute Diseases. The Sacred Disease. The Art. Breaths. Law. Decorum. Physician (Ch. 1). Dentition (Volume II)

(Loeb Classical Library; 148)

Hippocrates, said to have been born in Cos in or before 460 BCE, learned medicine and philosophy; travelled widely as a medical doctor and teacher; was consulted by King Perdiccas of Macedon and Artaxerxes of Persia; and died perhaps at Larissa. Apparently he rejected superstition ...

Evagoras. Helen. Busiris. Plataicus. Concerning the Team of Horses. Trapeziticus. Against Callimachus. Aegineticus. Against Lochites. Against Euthynus. Letters (Volume III)

(Loeb Classical Library; 373)

The importance of Isocrates for the study of Greek civilisation of the fourth century BCE is indisputable. From 403 to 393 he wrote speeches for Athenian law courts, and then became a teacher of composition for would-be orators. After setting up a school of rhetoric ...

Anacharsis or Athletics. Menippus or The Descent into Hades. On Funerals. A Professor of Public Speaking. Alexander the False Prophet. Essays in Portraiture. Essays in Portraiture Defended. The Goddesse of Surrye (Volume IV)

(Loeb Classical Library; 162)

Lucian (ca. 120–190 CE), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful travelling lecturer, before settling in Athens and developing his original brand of satire. Late in life he ...

The Jewish War, Volume II: Books 3-4

(Loeb Classical Library; 487)

Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about 37 CE. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in Rome the cause of some Jewish priests he returned to ...

The Learned Banqueters, Volume II: Books 3.106e-5

(Loeb Classical Library; 208)

In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century CE) is amusing reading and of extraordinary value as a treasury of quotations ...

Metáforas en uso

Este libro brinda una introducción sistemática al estudio de la argumentación, ofreciendo instrumentos para su análisis y evaluación y para la presentación de argumentos en el discurso oral y en el escrito. Planteado como una introducción general para los estudiantes interesados en un funcionamiento adecuado ...

Diccionari Sànscrit - Català

Una obra de gran prestigi i un gran pas endavant en els estudis de sànscrit, llengua sagrada i d’erudició, la llengua dels textos clàssics de l’hinduisme. Una obra importantíssima i única, per ser el primer diccionari de gran envergadura entre el sànscrit i ...

Roman Antiquities, Volume III: Books 5-6.48

(Loeb Classical Library; 357)

Dionysius of Halicarnassus was born before 53 BCE and went to Italy before 29 BCE. He taught rhetoric in Rome while studying the Latin language, collecting material for a history of Rome, and writing. His Roman Antiquities began to appear in 7 BCE. Dionysius states ...

La enseñanza del léxico latino en el Renacimiento

Nebrija, su "Lexicon seu paruum vocabularium" y las nomenclaturas del español

Este volumen presenta una edición de la primera nomenclatura del español -el "Lexicon seu paruum vocabularium"-, acompañada de un estudio preliminar en el que se revisan las características de este tipo de obras lexicográficas, la tradición diccionarista medieval, la producción nebriense, pues este repertorio temático ...

Nemean Odes. Isthmian Odes. Fragments

(Loeb Classical Library; 485)

Of the Greek lyric poets, Pindar (ca. 518–438 BCE) was “by far the greatest for the magnificence of his inspiration” in Quintilian’s view; Horace judged him “sure to win Apollo’s laurels.” The esteem of the ancients may help explain why a good ...

Lives, Volume X: Agis and Cleomenes. Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus. Philopoemen and Flamininus

(Loeb Classical Library; 102)

Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. 45–120 CE, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He ...

Estudios sobre Terencio

A finales del año 1997 Beatriz Rabaza, latinista de la Universidad de Rosario, y Andrés Pociña, latinista de la Universidad de Granada, firmábamos con emoción no contenida las palabras preliminares del libro Estudios sobre Plauto (Madrid, 1998), un hermoso resultado de la colaboración y la ...

Literatura y traducción

Este libro recopila una serie de trabajos y artículos publicados -salvo tres inéditos- en distintos volúmenes y revistas especializados en el ámbito de la literatura o la traducción. Nos encontramos aquí con un autor del siglo XVII, como Charle Sorel, otros del XX, como Jacques ...

Lives, Volume II: Themistocles and Camillus. Aristides and Cato Major. Cimon and Lucullus

(Loeb Classical Library; 47)

Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. 45–120 CE, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He ...

Theaetetus. Sophist

(Loeb Classical Library; 123)

Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; that he left Athens for a time ...

The Republic, Volume 6: Books VI-X

(Loeb Classical Library; 276)

Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; that he left Athens for a time ...

Enseñanza de la lengua y la cultura españolas a extranjeros

Componen este libro once estudios sobre un tema de gran importancia e interés dentro y fuera de nuestras fronteras: la enseñanza de la lengua y la cultura españolas a hablantes no nativos. La necesidad de materiales de consulta justifica la aparición de esta obra de ...

El lenguaje y la vida humana

En esta obra se pone en claro el proceso de la evolución del habla, las costumbres que rigen su empleo en los grupos humanos, la manera como funciona en la comunicación y el pensamiento y los interesantes fenómenos de sus variaciones en el espacio y ...